Russian law enforcement officers blocked the “Wagner” group building in St. Petersburg.
Several law enforcement officers were on duty at the entrance to the building.
One of them said to the taxi driver where the reporter was: “The building has been blocked, please go around.”
Several police cars were parked on the street, and journalists were also at the scene. So far, there are no idlers near the “Wagner” building.
The “Wagner Center”, aimed at developing defense technologies, started operations in St. Petersburg on November 4. The “Wagner Center” consists of a complex of buildings that provides free locations for inventors, designers, IT specialists, experimental production and entrepreneurial spaces. According to Prigozhin, the mission of the center is “to provide a comfortable environment for the birth of new ideas to improve Russia’s defense capabilities, including information capabilities.”
The Public Relations Center of the Russian Federal Security Service reported in the early morning of the 24th that the Russian Defense Ministry’s bombing of “the rear units of the ‘Wagner’ private military company” was spread on social media in the name of Yevgeny Prigozhin. All the news is not true, it is information provocation. The Russian Ministry of Defense also made the same notification. The Investigative Department of the Russian Federal Security Service has initiated criminal proceedings against Prigozhin for the fact of organizing an armed rebellion under Article 279 of the Russian Criminal Code. General Sergei Surovkin, Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces, called on the commanders and fighters of the “Wagner” group to obey the will of the Russian President and resolve the issue peacefully.
The Russian Ministry of Defense later stated that the Kiev regime took advantage of Prigozhin’s provocation to concentrate its forces to attack in the direction of Bakhmut, but “soldiers of Army Group South are attacking the enemy with aircraft and artillery.”
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said Putin knew about Prigozhin. Peskov said that Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov reported to Putin against the background of the opening of a criminal case against the planned armed rebellion and reported on the legality of the judicial action, while the Ministry of Defense, the Federal Security Service , the Ministry of the Interior and the Guards will report to the President on the measures taken within 24 hours after the Head of State gives instructions.
Subsequently, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued an appeal to the fighters of the “Wagner” group, stating that they were tricked into joining Prigozhin’s risky crimes and participating in the armed insurrection. The Russian Ministry of Defense advised them to act cautiously and contact the Russian Ministry of Defense or law enforcement agencies as soon as possible, adding: “Many comrades in several of your units have realized their mistakes and asked for help to return them safely to their permanent locations. We This assistance has been provided to all these fighters and commanders.”