Yevgeny Prigozhin has urged Russian servicemen to join his armed uprising against the country’s military hierarchy. Prigozhin is the head of Russia’s Wagner private army, which has been fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.
Social media videos purported to show Prigozhin’s soldiers arriving in a convoy in Rostov-on-Don, the location of the Russian military’s southern area headquarters, and then storming the structure as observers from the public stood by, some of them smoking.
A later tweet claimed to contain a video of Prigozhin claiming to be in charge of the city and inviting the chief of the general staff and the Russian defense minister to a meeting at the headquarters building he now controls.
