{"id":2484,"date":"2023-06-24T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2023-06-24T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:06:32","slug":"russian-army-hq-captured-without-a-single-shot-prigozhin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/2023\/06\/24\/russian-army-hq-captured-without-a-single-shot-prigozhin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian army HQ captured without \u2018a single shot\u2019 \u2013 Prigozhin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner Chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leading a mutiny to bring down Moscow\u2019s top brass, said Saturday his fighters captured the army HQ in Russia\u2019s Rostov-on-Don \u201cwithout firing a single shot\u201d and claimed to have the support of locals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does the country support us? Because we went on a march of justice,\u201d Prigozhin said in his latest audio message on the Telegram social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to Rostov. Without a single shot we captured the building of the (army) HQ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the mercenaries \u201chad not touched a single soldier, we did not kill a single person on our way\u201d and claimed his men had been hit by strikes from \u201cartillery and after that from helicopters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed to have the support of locals in Rostov.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin said that his fighters had removed mines from outside the building Wagner occupied in Rostov.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the outspoken chief hit back at President Vladimir Putin, who called Prigozhin a traitor in an address to Russians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn treason of the motherland: the president is deeply wrong. We are patriots of our motherland,\u201d he said. (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner Chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leading a mutiny to bring down Moscow\u2019s top brass, said Saturday his fighters captured the army HQ in Russia\u2019s Rostov-on-Don \u201cwithout firing a single shot\u201d and claimed to have the support of locals. \u201cWhy does the country support us? Because we went on a march of justice,\u201d Prigozhin said in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}