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The group posted the vid on the anniversary of Prigozhin’s ill-fated march on Moscow.
COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating
Remember this? The coup that wasn’t, only a year ago in Russia? The alleged coup-master, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has since died in a baffling plane crash. But today the self proclaimed descendants of his Wagner Group showed themselves in a video, back on the road, heading to points unknown.
“On the way.. March of Justice!” reads the caption, translated from Russian.
The unverified group posted the mystery vid on June 23, the one-year anniversary of Prigozhin’s ill fated march on Moscow.
As backstory: the Kremlin charged Yevgeny Prigozhin with mutiny on June 23, 2023, after the bellicose Wagner Group chief called on all Russians to join his forces in an uprising against the country’s defense minister.
Prigozhin accused his wartime nemesis, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, of ordering Russian troops to shell Prigozhin’s forces in Ukraine.
“The Minister of Defense arrived specially in Rostov to carry out an operation to destroy the Wagner PMC (private military company),” Prigozhin wrote on his Telegram social media channel.
Now, amid rumors about the Wagner Group’s fate and who it really works for (that’s always the qualifier, really), the latest vid appears.
The only thing I really can say is that these guys in uniform are playing aggression-music as they travel the right-hand side of the road.
So, what now, Wagnerites? Let us know what your “March of Justice” really is about.
Susan Katz Keating is the publisher and editor in chief at Soldier of Fortune.
