 The deputy commander of Russia's Ukraine campaign, General Sergei Surovikin, on June 23 urged the fighters of the Wagner private militia to give up their opposition to the military leadership and return to their bases. I urge you to stop," he said in a video message posted on Telegram. Another member of Russia's top military brass, Jen Vladimir Alexeyev, said in a video obtained by Reuters that the actions of Wagner PMC and its founder Yevgeny Prigazin as a stab in the back and a military coup. Earlier on Friday, the FSB security service had said comments by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigazin bowing to avenge Moscow's purported killing of thousands of his fighters amounted to a call to start an armed civil conflict, the Interfax News Agency reported. It urged Wagner fighters to arrest him.