Moscow (BLAZETRENDS).- The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, reported this morning that his forces shot down a Russian Army helicopter.
“Right now a helicopter opened fire on a column of civilians, it was shot down by Wagner’s troops,” he said in an audio posted on his Telegram channel.
Shortly before, he denounced that two Russian Air Force aircraft, with the identification numbers 523 and 546, “attempted to attack” the column that allegedly entered the Russian region of Rostov, in the south of the country, and is advancing towards Moscow.
“Remember, guys, the homeland will not forgive you for shooting into its territory. You have to show courage and shoot into enemy territory when our infantry advances, ”he warned.
Prigozhin pointed out that Wagner does not bother anyone by fighting at the front, “we annoy the criminals who want to save their ass, who annihilated about 100,000 Russian soldiers: (Chief of the General Staff Valeri) Gerasimov and (Defense Minister, Sergei) Shoigu”.
The governor of Rostov, Vasily Golubev, stated, for his part, on his Telegram channel that “the situation demands the maximum concentration of all forces to maintain order.”
“The police take all necessary measures to guarantee the safety of the population of the region. I ask everyone to remain calm and not leave their homes unnecessarily,” he said. Law enforcement officers have blocked the road from the regional capital, Rostov-on-Don, where armored personnel have been seen, according to the Astra channel.
VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, blocked Prigozhin’s page, where the audios in which he declared himself in default with the Russian Ministry of Defense had been published.