Piontkovsky Explains Why Prigozhin Didn't Go To Seize Kremlin

• 5.07.2023, 8:07

The head of the Wagner PMC had a different plan on the day of the uprising.

Capturing the Kremlin was not part of the plans of the Wagner military during the mutiny in the Russian Federation in June. That was the opinion of Russian political scientist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky, who lives in the United States, in an interview with the editor-in-chief of gordonua.com, Alesa Batzman.

"So why [the founder of the internationally recognized criminal organization, Wagner PMC, Yevgeny] Prigozhin did not go to seize the Kremlin, when he had walked [so far] without any resistance? Because it was not in the plans of this group. Their task is to retain power and property in the defeated country... Then to find a modus vivendi (a winged expression in Latin, meaning the agreement of the parties to coexist. - ed.), what they want to negotiate with the West. They don't need to come to power against the background of street fighting in Moscow to do that," Piontkovsky said. "They don't need to enter Kremlin cabinets through the bodies of [Russian aggressor President Vladimir] Putin's personal bodyguards. They don't need that. They need to get their posts absolutely legitimately by decrees of the acting president - Mr. [Russian Prime Minister Mikhail] Mishustin".

According to the political scientist, it is Mishustin who, according to the constitution, will temporarily head Russia if Putin loses power.