{"id":1956030,"date":"2023-06-24T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:07:40","slug":"russia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia coup: Key facts about the Wagner rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Russian Military Faces Unprecedented Challenge as Private Mercenary Group Rebels<\/h2>\n<p>The Russian military was thrown into disarray after the leader of a private mercenary group rebelled against the Kremlin on Friday, marking the <a title=\"2020 Was the Brian Stelter of Years\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-was-the-brian-stelter-of-years\/\">greatest challenge<\/a> to President Vladimir Putin\u2019s leadership in over two decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Russian General, Gun in Hand, Urges Wagner Group to Stand Down: \u2018Stop the Columns\u2019<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know so far about the uprising:<\/p>\n<h3>Why did Wagner mercenaries revolt?<\/h3>\n<p>The revolt comes after Prigozhin accused the Russian military of attacking his Wagner military forces on Friday, vowing to retaliate against the Kremlin. The Wagner leader accused the Russian military of killing a \u201chuge amount\u201d of his men, warning he would \u201cdestroy\u201d any resistance to their group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 25,000 of us, and we are going to find out why there is such chaos in the country,\u201d Prigozhin said.<\/p>\n<p>The group of mercenaries then marched to Rostov-on-Don, with Prigozhin releasing a video saying they would blockade the area until Russia\u2019s <a title=\"Report: Biden Was Warned By Top Officials Against Quick Afghanistan Withdrawal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-was-warned-by-top-officials-against-quick-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">top military generals<\/a> came to meet with them.<\/p>\n<h3>Who is the Wagner group?<\/h3>\n<p>The Wagner Group is a <a title=\"Russia coup: Key facts about the Wagner rebellion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military\/\">private military organization connected<\/a> to Putin&#8217;s former close ally Yevgeny Prigozhin.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner forces played a key role in the Russian offensive of the Ukrainian war by capturing the eastern city of Bakhmut, where the bloodiest and longest battles have taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin founded Wagner to fight battles in eastern Ukraine as well as other Russian battles across the world. However, Prigozhin has increasingly criticized the Russian military, accusing it of incompetence and of starving his troops of munitions.<\/p>\n<h3>How did Putin respond?<\/h3>\n<p>Putin responded to the internal mutiny on Friday evening, calling the rebellion a \u201cbetrayal\u201d that amounts to \u201ctreason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who carry deliberately on a path of treason, preparing an armed rebellion when you were <a title=\"Australia Lists Tehran-Backed Hezbollah as 'Terrorist Organization'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australia-lists-tehran-backed-hezbollah-as-terrorist-organization\/\">preparing terrorist attacks<\/a>, will be punished,\u201d Putin said. \u201cAny internal turmoil is a deadly threat to our statehood for us as a nation; it is a blow to Russia for our people and our actions to protect our homeland. Such a threat will face a severe response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s defense military has denied reports that it had opened fire on the Wagner group, calling the accusations \u201cinformational propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plane belonging to Putin was later reported to have left Moscow to head toward St. Petersburg, indicating the Russian leader is attempting to distance himself from the unrest.<\/p>\n<h3>How did Ukraine respond?<\/h3>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to the internal rebellion on Saturday, criticizing the &#8220;stupidity\u201d of Russia\u2019s government and claiming its \u201cweakness\u201d has been exposed by the uprising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Russian President Vladimir Putin] despises people and throws hundreds of thousands into the war \u2014 in order to eventually barricade himself in the Moscow region from those whom he himself armed,\u201d Zelensky wrote in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n<h3>What happens now?<\/h3>\n<p>Wagner mercenaries are currently heading toward Moscow as they continue to advance into Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Russian military forces have <a title=\"Suspect dead, 1 officer shot at Knoxville high school shooting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-dead-1-officer-shot-at-knoxville-high-school-shooting\/\">reportedly opened fire<\/a> on the group, according to Reuters. The attack comes after Putin vowed to crush any rebellious mutiny against the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Putin compared the revolt to Russia\u2019s own civil war in 1917, which occurred after the Bolsheviks overthrew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia during World War I. That attack ignited a war within the country and eventually led to the creation of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the same kind of blow that Russia felt in 1917 when the country entered World War I, but had victory stolen from it,\u201d Putin said. \u201cIntrigues, squabbles, politicking behind the backs of the army and the people turned out to be the greatest shock, the destruction of the army, the collapse of the state, the loss of vast territories, and in the end, the tragedy and civil war. Russians killed Russians, brothers killed brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>severe blow to the Russian military. This act of rebellion by Prigozhin, the leader of a private mercenary group called Wagner, poses a significant threat to President Putin&#8217;s authority. With his troops now stationed in a crucial city near Moscow, the situation has plunged the Kremlin into chaos and uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Russia coup: Key facts about the Wagner rebellion","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Russia coup: Key facts about the Wagner rebellion","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}