In Russia, the plot thickens as Putin and Prigozhin square off with dueling cover stories

Published June 27, 2023 11:01am ET



PRIGOZHIN: ‘WE DIDN’T WANT TO SPILL RUSSIAN BLOOD’: Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has supposedly been exiled to Belarus after his aborted Saturday march on Moscow, but we don’t really know where he is. There are unconfirmed reports this morning his private jet has landed in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.

In an 11-minute audio statement issued yesterday, Prigozhin sounded both defiant and apologetic as he portrayed the events of the weekend as an effort to protest demands from the Russian Defense Ministry to dismantle his private army and not an attempt to depose Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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