Yevgeny Prigozhin says he did not want to overthrow Putin with armed mutiny in Russia – audio

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has said that he wasn't aiming to oust the Russian authorities by marching towards Moscow and acted to protect his Wagner Group from being disbanded.

Prigozhin spoke, via audio message, for the first time since an aborted armed rebellion he staged on Saturday, defending the move as a reaction to an attack on his force that killed some of his fighters.

'We started our march because of an injustice,' Prigozhin said in an 11-minute audio statement. He didn't offer any details as to where he was at the moment or what his future plans were.

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[ThyEngineer]

>Throws 25 thousand mercenaries on a march to moscow
>Shoots down helicopters and overtakes cities
>Turns around because he doesn't want to shed blood

Makes sense

[beautifulplaces]

Prigozhin :"Sorry, Vlad, there must have been some misunderstanding. I told my men to make a soup but they misheard and made a coup."

[LuckyLuke]

1 minute of 11? Oh boy! Journalism at it's best. Was it too hard to translate the rest?

[djtomoy]

Translation: please don’t push me out of window

[SinCity]

Whos here after his "plane crash" . Wasnt surprised at all.

[georgiost]

Mr. Prigozhin soon realizes that he has nowhere to go. He is getting trapped by the hungry wolves.

[Andrew-cvgv]

He did not want to attack Putin It was a special military operation 😅

[justinstuart]

He looks like the old Darth Vader from 83.

[antonysimpson]

He stepped over the red line for sure.

[spencethegreat]

He’s like the Russian version of General Hummel from the movie The Rock

[JBeats]

I don’t know if Putin finna let this slide. You !?? Acting like your going march up against the guy living in Bowser’s castle ?? That’s gonna get you an acid bath in a gallon drum. Don’t touch any door knobs or you’ll be French toasted with eggs.

[justinbishop]

Hope he got paid very well this man will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his time

[herytik]

Will he end up cellophane wrapped to a wall?

[womblestacker]

It was about money that's all lol

[matthewdesaegher]

what Prigozin did was showing Putins weakness ! Putin is now become pray to other groups that also want to take over

[pqmuilxqv]

Belarus gets nukes and the best, most effective army in the world. Now, read that again ...
Checkmate!

[Ivan-wpne]

Prigozhin wanted to keep his army, as Shoigu ordered to sign a contract with the ministry till July 1st, Putin wanted to prevent revolt, Lukashenko saw what was happening, realized that revolt would spread to Belorussia and called Putin, convinced Putin to give him an opportunity to talk with Prigozhin instrad of killing him that would cause slaughter, Prigozhin accepted to negotiate as he already realized that a half of his army, nor civilians, don’t support him. Accepted to go to Belorussia. Everyone won.

[MrCeora]

He's gone. You won't be hearing from him again...

[Adam-deyi]

He is 100% in Africa or Belarus right now.

[vicinvesta]

"Mutiny of preverts" (Col. 'Bat' Guano)