Grim-faced Putin blasts Wagner chief Prigozhin for 'stabbing him in the back' and threatens severe punishment after warlord's feared militia take control of military HQ - with Moscow going into red alert for a coup
Vladimir Putin has called Wagner chief Yvegney Prigozhin's military coup 'treason' as he addressed the Russian people on Saturday. Moscow is in lockdown amid growing fears of a military coup as Yvegney Prigozhin and his feared 25,000-strong Wagner militia take control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, saying they are 'ready to die' as they vow revenge for a military strike from Putin's forces that the mercenary leader says killed some of his men. All public events have been cancelled in the Russian capital as Vladimir Putin prepares to take to TV in a bid to affirm his increasingly shaky grip on power. Prigozhin issued a new message at about 7:30am Saturday Moscow time saying his men have infiltrated the Southern Defense Command in Rostov-on-Don and that the city's airfield was under his control.
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Wagner seize control of Russian military HQ after commanding officer FLED when mercenaries arrived: Warlord Prigozhin says 25,000 men will march on Moscow to take out 'evil' chiefs as Putin charges him with mutiny
Russian military vehicles were seen on the streets of Rostov-on-Don after Prigozhin called for an armed rebellion in a direct challenge to the Kremlin.
From Putin's 'chef' to leading a coup against the Kremlin: How Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin rose up the ranks from caterer to chief of shadowy mercenary company that devastated Ukraine
For Prigozhin, 62, who made his money providing catering services and eared himself the nickname 'Putin's chef', it was not so long ago was considered a close ally of Putin and the Kremlin.
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