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A Wagner Group fighter has explained the part he played in the attempted coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The fighter said the group's soldier's "didn't
have a clue" what was going on as leader Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a military insurrection by sending troops into Rostov and then advancing towards Moscow. The Wagner fighter said
soldiers received a call to join a group leaving Ukraine on June 23. The call reportedly came from a commander who as acting on orders from Prigozhin and the Wagner Command Council. The
junior commander, who gave a rare interview with BBC Russian, was resting in barracks in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine when the call came in. Named by the BBC as Gleb, he
said the call told Wagner members it was a "full deployment" and they would be "forming a column," although he claims soldiers were unsure where they would be heading. He
says they encountered no resistance as they made their way into Rostov, crossing the Russian border. He said: "I didn't see any border guards. But the traffic police saluted us
along the way." Telegram channels linked to Wagner however claim border guards at the Bugayevka checkpoint had laid down their weapons as the fighters arrived. Gleb told the BBC his
group were given orders to surround all the law enforcement agency buildings in Rostov-on-Don before occupying the military airport. As fighters were advancing, Prigozhin was reportedly at
the Russian army's Southern Military District headquarters meeting high-ranking military officials. There he demanded Russia hand over the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov,
and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. Gleb says another column of Wagner fighters were marching on through Russia as discussions went on. Led by rarely seen Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin, the
group were on the move. Gleb however says fighters were unsure what Prigozihn intended to do. Instead he says, they learnt the latest updates from their leaders via Telegram. As the uprising
went on, pictures broadcast across the globe showed the fighters chatting to smiling families living in Rostov. Gleb says this was "the cons," a reference to the number of
prisoners hired to help the conflict with Ukraine. For the established members of Wagner, he says the rules are more strict. Several ex-fighters reportedly told the BBC they would be killed
if they spoke out. In the evening of June 24, Gleb said they received a message to return back to their base. It was on the way back they learned Prigozhin could face criminal charges -
which were subsequently dropped - and had fled to Belarus. They also discovered Wagner fighters would not face action for their role in the mutiny. Although Gleb says their future now
remains unclear, having been told to stay in their barracks. The so-called Luhansk People's Republic, pro-Russian separatist militants, who are housing the group now awaits news of
their future, particularly what will happen to the weapons and ammunition. When asked why he doesn't leave Wagner to secure his future, Gleb simply said: "My contract hasn't
expired yet."