Prigozhin arrives in St. Petersburg, recovers the seized weapons

Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), personally arrived in St. Petersburg on July 4, where the weapons seized during the searches were returned to him.

Source: Russian media your source with reference to the sources

Date: “On July 4, at 5:00 p.m., a BMW 7 Series and a Land Cruiser with accompanying security guards drove up to the building of the Department of the Federal Security Service in St. Petersburg and [Leningrad] Province on Liteyny Prospekt.

According to Fontanka, the caravan was parked near Shpalernaya Street, 25. The back door of the BMW opened, Yevgeny Prigozhin got out and, after walking a few meters, opened the massive doors with the sign “Reception” on their right .

Details: According to the outlet, on Tuesday, Prigozhin was returned two Saiga rifles, an Austrian Steyr Mannlicher rifle, an AR semi-automatic rifle and several other rifles and pistols.

He soon got out, and the people who were with him took out their rifles and put them in the car. The caravan left.

A few hours earlier, the Wagner PMC leader was officially invited to retrieve his weapons found during searches on June 24 and confiscated at his country residence in the elite northern village of Versailles.

Background:

• On the evening of June 23, leader of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin stated that the Russian regular army had launched a missile attack on the rear camps of Wagner’s mercenaries. He therefore deployed 25,000 of his mercenaries “to restore justice”.

• On June 24, Wagner’s mercenaries took control of military facilities in Rostov-on-Don and seized military facilities in Voronezhand they were on their way to Moscow, and the The Russian capital was already preparing for defense.

• In an emergency address, dictator Vladimir Putin spoke of treason and attempts to do so “organize a rebellion”. Ukrainian intelligence had information about it Putin had left Moscow urgently for his residence in Valdai.

• In the evening of the same day, after a conversation with the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin said that his mercenaries they were returning to the field camps. The criminal case against Prigozhin in Russia promised to closeand had to “go to Belarus”.

• On June 27, Prigozhin’s business plane left the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don for Belarus, and another plane arrived from St. Petersburg.

• The FSB reported that the criminal case on “armed rebellion” against the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhinhad been extinguished.

• Alexander Lukashenko claimed that Yevgeniy Prigozhin had it arrived in Belarus.

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