PMC Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped.

They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we will bring it back.

Those, who destroyed today our guys, who destroyed tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers will be punished.

I’m asking: no one resist. Everyone who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and destroy them immediately, including any checkpoints on our way. And any aviation that we see above our heads.

I’m asking everyone to remain calm, do not succumb to provocations, and remain in their houses. Ideally, those along our way, do not go outside.

After we finished what we started, we will return to the frontline to protect our motherland.

Presidential authority, Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia, and other departments will continue operating as before.

We will deal with those who destroy Russian soldiers. And we will return to the frontline.

Justice in the Army will be restored. And after this, justice for the whole of Russia.

Again it looks like the Russian military being opportunistic and Wagner acting in self-defense, which doesn't sound like the kind of motivation that would sustain conflict. But it does raise questions about what it means for the war in Ukraine. Prigozhin may be making a public appeal to end the conflict early and trying to pull Putin's power base from under his feet maybe.

I have to say I'm surprised at how well our defensive missiles have taken out all the incoming cruise missiles from Russia. There was a mention of a town on NPR that was a hundred miles from the Ukraine front and out of the thirty missiles fired at it none made it through. All this talk of hypersonic missiles and they get defeated by the patriot system. That has to be a hard blow to Putin.

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Sounds like propaganda to me
We heard this story before back in '91