{"id":1959140,"date":"2023-06-28T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-but-plot-was-leaked-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:42:26","slug":"prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-but-plot-was-leaked-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-but-plot-was-leaked-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Prigozhin&#8217;s plot to seize Russian military leaders exposed: Report."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fprigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-but-plot-was-leaked-report%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=1959140&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>Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s Ambitious Rebellion<\/h2>\n<p>The founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-odonnell-americas-first-christmas-that-changed-the-course-of-history\/\" title=\"Exclusive--O'Donnell: America\u2019s First Christmas that Changed the Course of History\">daring plan<\/a> to capture top Russian military leaders. However, his intentions were leaked, foiling his plot.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Specific leaks about preparations for a rebellion that would begin between June 22-25 were leaked from Prigozhin\u2019s camp,&#8221; said Gen. Viktor Zolotov, commander of the National Guard of Russia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin aimed to capture Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov during their visit to a southern region bordering Ukraine. But the Federal Security Service (FSB) discovered his plans, according to Western officials cited by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Prigozhin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-could-run-out-of-steam-in-ukraine-in-2-weeks\/\" title=\"Russia Could Run Out Of Steam In Ukraine In 2 Weeks\">troops managed<\/a> to capture the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-planned-to-capture-russian-military-leaders-but-plot-was-leaked-report\/\" title=\"Prigozhin's plot to seize Russian military leaders exposed: Report.\">key command point<\/a> of Rostov, as they marched towards Moscow with little resistance. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-takes-to-truth-social-with-his-stance-on-the-latest-russia-updates\/\" title=\"Trump shares his views on Russia updates on Truth social.\">rebellion posed<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bibis-last-hurrah-irans-largest-warship-reduced-to-flaming-wreckage-as-pm-faces-ousting\/\" title=\"Bibi\u2019s Last Hurrah? Iran\u2019s Largest Warship Reduced to Flaming Wreckage as PM Faces Ousting\">significant challenge<\/a> to President Putin&#8217;s reign, revealing &#8220;cracks&#8221; within his circle, as noted by U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<h3>Uncertain Fallout and Revelations<\/h3>\n<p>It remains unclear how this debacle will impact Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine, as the Wagner Group had been actively involved in the conflict. They had been on the front lines in Bakhmut, the deadliest battle of the war.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of his plot, Prigozhin publicly admitted that Russian officials had been deceiving citizens about the war&#8217;s justification. He acknowledged that NATO and Ukraine did not pose a legitimate threat to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted rebellion ultimately came to an end through a deal brokered by the Belarusian government, where Prigozhin sought refuge.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented on the situation, saying, &#8220;We don\u2019t have full information obviously, and it is too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go. But we could say this: First of all, what we\u2019ve seen is extraordinary. And I think you\u2019ve seen cracks emerge that weren\u2019t there before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, planned to seize top Russian military leaders during his failed uprising. However, his intentions were exposed beforehand. Prigozhin aimed to capture Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia&#8217;s chief of general staff, during their visit to a southern region near Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1959141,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959140","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959140","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=1959140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}