A US military analyst says Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin should avoid upstairs windows after his military blunder on Saturday prompted accusations of treason from the Kremlin, Insider reports.

“As for Prigogine, he will have to reflect on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous quote: ‘When you strike the king, you must kill him,'” said William F. Wexler, director of the Rafika Hariri Center on the Middle East, a think tank at the Atlantic Council in Washington.

“Indeed, now he would like to avoid any upper-floor windows, as Putin’s opponents have tended to be particularly clumsy around them in recent years,” he added wryly, referring to Russian opponents or officials who have mysteriously died after falling . from the window

On Saturday night, Yevgeny Prigozhin ended a military uprising he had started in what some analysts called the biggest challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s power since he became Russia’s leader in 2000.

Videos that appeared on Russian social networks show that his mercenaries even shot down a command plane of the Russian army during the uprising.

Prigozhin, through his Concordia firm’s press office, sent a “hello everyone” email to CNN on Sunday night after American reporters asked him several questions, including about his current whereabouts.

Prigozhin was last seen leaving Rostov-on-Don late Saturday night in a black SUV after the Kremlin said Lukashenko had struck a deal in which Prigozhin agreed to go to Belarus and end his rebellion.

Vladimir Putin accused his “cook” of treason

In a televised address on Saturday morning, the Kremlin leader accused Yevgeny Prigozhin of treason after the mercenary leader seized control of the military command in Rostov-on-Don last night, demanding a change of military command in Moscow. .

Vladimir Putin has declared that he will defend the Russian people and the Motherland, his response will be tough against the ambitions of “endemic forces”, which he accuses of “striking” Russia.

“This is treason. It’s like a knife in the back. Intrigues and everything else led to mass unrest, and the tragedy of this war made Russians victims,” ​​Putin said. “These internal troubles are a blow to our people,” he emphasized.

“Those who betrayed Russia, I appeal to everyone involved in this not to take part in any armed conflict,” he told Prigozhin’s men who were on their way to Moscow.

The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who was once an ally of Prigozhin in a dispute with the military command in Moscow, reacted in the same way. Kadyrov is believed to have orchestrated the assassination of several Kremlin opponents, including Boris Nemtsov.

In Moscow’s power circles, Prigozhin was nicknamed “Putin’s chef” because of his company Concordia, which was engaged in catering for the Kremlin. He used the firm’s press office to deliver numerous messages to the Russian public after his mercenaries became a central component of Moscow’s war effort.

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