For months the Wagner mercenary chief has bombarded leaders with expletive-ridden rants slating and rebuking their competence in an ongoing rift that has weakened the country's forces amid its assault on Ukraine. Now the standoff between Yevgeny Prigozhin and the defence ministry appears to have come to a head, as the millionaire mercenary group boss called for an armed rebellion in direct challenge to the Kremlin.Prigozhin said he would take all necessary steps to topple the country's military leadership as he claimed his forces had 'crossed state borders' and were ready to 'destroy anything that gets in the way'.
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