"We marched to demonstrate our protest, not to overthrow the government in the country," Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner PMC, Euronews reports.
According to the entrepreneur, the demonstration was triggered by a "rocket strike" on Wagner PMC positions, resulting in the deaths of approximately 30 fighters. However, several experts believed the strike video was staged.
Prigozhin claimed that during the march to Moscow, "not a single soldier on the ground was killed," but the mercenaries had to defend themselves against planes and helicopters.
When they were around 200 kilometers away from Moscow, it became "evident that a lot of blood would be shed at that moment," Prigozhin explained. As a result, the columns turned back.
During this time, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko extended support to the Wagner PMC leader. It is presumed that Evgeny Prigozhin is currently in Belarus or, at the very least, headin there.
In Russia, the criminal case against him, which was one of the conditions for halting the "march," has not been closed.
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