Combatant reports that his unit only learned that he was in an insurrection when following the news on Telegram
A mercenary who participated in the attempted mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin claims he and his fellow fighters “had no idea” what was going on that June 23rd.
It was the day when, within a span of 24 hours, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, organized an insurrection and sent his paramilitary troops into the Russian city of Rostov and then towards Moscow. Hours later, however, the mercenary chief stated that he would halt this advance to avoid bloodshed — the details of what caused his retreat remain unclear to this day.
Fighters on the Wagner rarely speak to the press, but the BBC’s Russian branch was able to talk to a junior commander who was in the thick of things.
Gleb, the fighter’s fictitious name, participated in the battle in the symbolic city of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine. When the June mutiny began, he was resting with his unit, in a barracks in the Russian-occupied Lugansk region of Ukraine.
In the early morning of June 23, fighters received a call to join a Wagner column leaving Ukraine.
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