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Wagner boss says his troops entered Rostov-on-Don without firing a single shot
The head of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed on Saturday that his troops entered the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don without a single shot and said that no one was killed during what he called a “march of justice.”
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"We didn’t touch a single conscript, we didn’t kill a single person on our way,” he said in an audio statement.
He added that the Russian air force targeted his troops, but they still managed to seize military headquarters in Rostov “without a single gunshot.”
His claims could not be independently verified. The Russian authorities haven’t reported any casualties so far, either.
Shortly before Prigozhin released his statement, an explosion was heard near the military headquarters his Wagner group apparently controls in Rostov. It was not immediately clear where the explosion occurred, how big it was and whether it caused any damage.
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