Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced on Saturday that he would send his men into “tension zones” as Russia faced an armed insurgency by the Wagner paramilitary group, particularly in Rostov in the south of the country, AFP reported.

“Fighters of the Ministry of Defense and the National Guard of Chechnya have already gone to the tension zones. We will do everything to preserve the unity of Russia and protect its statehood,” said Kadyrov, whose fighters took an active part in Russia’s offensive against Ukraine. – said in Telegram.

Earlier, he declared that he was ready to help suppress Prigozhin’s rebellion with his own strength and would use harsh methods.

Kadyrov called Prigozhin’s behavior a “knife in the back” and asked the Russian military not to succumb to any “provocations”.

Panicked Russian generals called on Prigozhin to abandon his “coup d’état” as armored vehicles roamed the streets of Moscow, apparently intended to protect the Ministry of Defense and other bureaucratic centers from possible internal attack.

In this regard, Serhii Surovikin, whom the Russian media nicknamed “General Armageddon”, appealed to the “Wagners” to “obey the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.” “We are of the same blood, we are warriors, the enemy is waiting for the domestic political situation in the country to worsen.”

And former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev calls on Russians to unite around Vladimir Putin.

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin defied Vladimir Putin and said on Saturday that he and his men would not surrender after Wagner Group militants took control of Rostov-on-Don, a city of more than a million people near the border with Ukraine, and quickly moved north through Western Russia.

He says that Putin was wrong to call him a traitor.

“No one will give in to the president’s demand… We do not want the country to continue living in corruption and lies. We are patriots, and those who are against us are those who have gathered around the bastards,” concluded Prigozhin.