Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to seize two of Russia's top military officials when he launched a short-lived mutiny on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing Western officials.
Prigozhin’s plot involved the capture of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and top army general Valery Gerasimov when the pair visited a region along the border of Ukraine, the WSJ wrote. Russia’s Federal Security Service learned of the plot two days before it was due to take place, forcing Prigozhin to change his plans at the last minute and launch a march towards Moscow instead, according to the report.
I believe this is just another example of it.” Western officials told CNN that it was not clear how much the top Russian security officials knew of Prigozhin’s plans, nor the extend to which they supported them – tacitly or otherwise. “There is a lot of fog still… Time will tell what exactly [Prigozhin’s] reasons were,” one source said.
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