Prigoz is announced after withdrawing from the uprising: We intended to take Putin down, we marched to protest

But Prigozhin denied that Wagner wanted Putin to collapse, saying the uprising had shown that there were serious “security problems throughout our country's entire territory”.

“It was not our intention to overthrow the regime,” said Prigozhin at the audience on his page in the Concord Group's telegram.

We stopped at the moment, when it became clear that too much blood would be shed,” he continued.

This is why we believe the demonstration of what we were planning to do. Our decision to return had two factors: we did not want to shed Russian blood. Second, we marched to demonstrate our” protest, he added.

He once again accused the Russian Defence Ministry of targeting his troops with artillery fire, calling it “the collapse for Wagner to leave immediately”.

The goal of the march was not to allow the destruction of the private military company Wagner and to bring officials into account that their non-professional actions have led to a large number of mistakes. Society asked for it. ”

Pigozin admitted his troops had hit Russian aircraft during their uprising, saying they “regretted being asked to carry out attacks against aircraft, but they were hitting our bomb forces and rocket attacks”.

He also claimed that the troop movement in Russia was a lesson about how Russia should have carried out its invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, which failed to achieve its goal of taking Kiev.