Wagner Chief: We did not Want to Overthrow Russia's Government

The chief of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin made his first public comments Monday, after an aborted armed rebellion he launched against Russia's military leadership.

'We did not have the goal of overthrowing the existing regime and the legally elected government,' he said in an 11-minute audio message released on the Telegram messaging app.

Instead, Prigozhin said, he called his actions "a mar