The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is monitoring the rebellion of the Wagner paramilitary group in Russia, the spokeswoman for the Atlantic Alliance told Lusa on Saturday.
“We are monitoring the situation,” NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in a reply sent to Lusa.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed this Saturday the occupation of Rostov, a key city in southern Russia for the war in Ukraine, and called for a rebellion against the Russian military command, which he accused of attacking his fighters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the paramilitary group’s action “treason”, saying it was a “deadly threat” to the Russian state and treason, guaranteeing that “civil war” would not ensue.
Prigozhin had earlier accused the Russian army of attacking his mercenary camps, causing “a large number of casualties”, accusations denied by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Prigozhin’s accusations expose the deep tensions within Moscow’s forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
Source: TSF
