"Our country is in a dire situation." Generals from the Ministry of Defense addressed the Wagner PMC fighters and urged them to "stop the columns."

Army General Sergey Surovikin in his video message She urged Wagner PMC fighters "stop the columns and return them to their permanent deployment points."

«The enemy is just waiting for our domestic political situation to worsen. We can't play into their hands at this difficult time for the country."“,” he said, and proposed “to solve all problems only by peaceful means” and to submit to “the will and order of the popularly elected president.”

Against the same background and at the same table, my video message wrote down First Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, who worked for many years with the commanders and fighters of the Wagner PMC.

«Now our country is in a very difficult situation, when the entire Western world has turned against us, - he said. - Such things, which you've begun to implement under someone else's provocative idea, will lead to enormous losses, primarily political ones. Imagine how enthusiastically the West will react to what you're trying to do now."

He compared the actions of Prigozhin and his fighters to "a stab in the back of the country and the president." "Such a provocation could only have been carried out by enemies of the Russian Federation," Alekseyev insisted. "The last thing we need now is to unleash a civil war within the country."

UPDATE: AP Wagner Telegram channel (not the official channel of Yevgeny Prigozhin) сообщаетthat the commanders of the Wagner PMC "They remain loyal to the most promising politician and will carry out his every order. Neither the FSB nor Surovikin will be able to stop what has begun."

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