{"id":304497,"date":"2023-06-24T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=304497"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:13:11","slug":"wagner-mercenary-group-threatens-to-march-on-moscow-if-demands-not-met-putin-bluntly-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/wagner-mercenary-group-threatens-to-march-on-moscow-if-demands-not-met-putin-bluntly-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner mercenary group threatens to march on Moscow if demands not met; Putin bluntly responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_304500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304500\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-304500 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/YevgenyPrigozhin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"522\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yevgeny Prigozhin &#8211; photo taken from Russian Government Site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a bizarre and unprecedented twist in the Russia-Ukraine conflict Yevgeny Prigozhin the head of Russia&#8217;s Wagner mercenary group (a private Russian military company) has threatened to march on Moscow if demands to meet with top military brass in Russia are not met.<\/p>\n<p>This development is after the Wagner group has reportedly occupied Russian territory by seizing at least part of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in a bid to have their concerns taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin claims the Russian military launched a deadly missile strike on his own troops on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has vowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-europe-66006142\">defend Russia<\/a> and punish what he has deemed as treason and rebellion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-66005256\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a bizarre and unprecedented twist in the Russia-Ukraine conflict Yevgeny Prigozhin the head of Russia&#8217;s Wagner mercenary group (a private Russian military company) has threatened to march on Moscow if demands to meet with top military brass in Russia&#8230;","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":304505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[162,77,235,6,76,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-international-news","category-international-relations","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wagner mercenary group threatens to march on Moscow if demands not met; 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