On the day of the coup, Prigozhin planned to deliver a "shocking speech" in the State Duma

On June 23, 2023, the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin was going to speak at a roundtable in the State Duma with harsh criticism of the the leadership of the Russian army. The Moscow Times writes about this with reference to its sources, reports UNN.

He was going to voice the whole abyss about the SVO, about the Ministry of Defense (RF), how many casualties there are among our soldiers. In general, the whole **** [horror]. His assistants were preparing his arrival

According to the newspaper's sources, Prigozhin hoped that that in this way he would be able to attract the attention of Russian President Putin, to whom he had lost access to whom he had lost access, and to get his support in the confrontation with Defense Minister Shoigu and the head of the Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov.

According to a friend of Prigozhin's, his entourage seriously considered the possibility that he would come accompanied by General Sergei Surovikin, who who, after the Wagnerian mutiny, lost his position and fell out of favor.

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In the spring, Prigozhin appealed to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin for permission to speak from the rostrum, but was refused, so Prigozhin hoped to get to the roundtable secretly with the help of his supporters in "A Just Russia, a source in the party told the newspaper.

However, on June 22, the day before the scheduled speech, The Moscow Times learned that Prigozhin refused to participate in the event without explanation. refused to participate in the event.

Recall

The Wagnerian riot, which began in the evening of June 23 June, lasted for a day, after which Prigozhin stated that he had ordered it to stop, by agreeing to relocate the PMC to Belarus. Two months later, the airplane on board Prigozhin was on board crashed.