BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 24. The statements of the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin became the basis for initiating a criminal case under the article on incitement to armed rebellion, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee of Russia said, Trend reports.
Committee members urged Prigozhin to stop his illegal actions.
Prigozhin claimed that the Russian Ministry of Defense was striking behind the Wagner group and asserted that there were casualties. The Russian Ministry of Defense called the situation a provocation and stated that the information did not correspond to reality.