President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko He confirmed the presence of Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in Belarus. “The security guarantees, as promised yesterday, have been provided. Prigozhin is in Belarus today,” Lukashenko was quoted by the Belta news agency as saying. Lukashenko said he asked Vladimir Putin not to kill Prigozhin. Lukashenko explained during a meeting with security officials, according to a video broadcast by the Telegram channel near the presidency, Perfogo Pond. A “significant part” of the Russian nuclear weapons to be deployed in Belarus has already been delivered to this country. President Lukashenko said so. Belarusians have nothing to fear from the arrival of Wagner’s militiamen, who, on the contrary, could be useful to the armed forces in Kiev due to their experience. President Alexander said so Lukashenko Meeting with Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin. “They will tell us what is important now” in terms of weapons and strategy on the ground, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying. Lukashenko said that during the advance of Wagner’s mercenaries into Russia, “a whole brigade was ready to be transferred to the Russian Federation if necessary.”
“The Russian army and security forces effectively prevented a civil war from breaking out.” This was stated by Russian President Vladimir put it inShe spoke on Cathedral Square in the Kremlin in front of units of the army and security forces. Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying that if the Wagner rebellion had not been stopped at the end of the week, all the results obtained so far in the conflict in Ukraine “would have been lost”. “It is not known what could have happened to the country – but all the results obtained in the fighting would have been lost,” Putin stressed.
“The Russian war in Ukraine continues unabated. Our unwavering unity contrasts with the division in Russia demonstrated by the events of this weekend. We will increasingly reaffirm our commitment to support Ukraine for as long as necessary, even through sustained financial and military assistance.” This was written by the President of the European Council, Charles Michellein the message addressed to the leaders of the European Union in light of the summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels.
Russia did not have to “remove military units” from combat zones in Ukraine to deal with the Wagner RebellionHe added that internal security units are sponsored by units from the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, and elements from the Ministry of Interior. Indeed, the commander of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, announced today that the corps he heads will be equipped with heavy weapons and tanks.
During his speech, the Russian president asked to be honored with A minute’s silence in memory of the victims of the Wagen Rebellionpg. 24 June. Putin addressed units of the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and
From the FSO, involved in the suppression of the June 24 rebellion. Defense Minister Shoigu was also on the field.
Meanwhile, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko He said he had ordered the Belarusian military to put it on high alert During the Wagner Rebellion to be combat-ready. The official, a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin, stressed in a speech that it was “painful to witness” the Wagner rebellion over the weekend. “Many Belarusians took it seriously, because the Motherland is one.” He added that “color revolutions (protests aimed at overthrowing governments) never break out if the state does not have its causes.” He explained that the ongoing tensions between the Wagner Group and the Russian army were poorly managed, which led to a “clash” between the two sides at the end of last week. “The situation got out of hand, and then we thought it would be resolved, but it didn’t.”Lukashenko said. “There are no heroes in this story,” he said.
In conclusion, the Belarusian president said: “I think we will all die if Russia collapses and buries us under the rubble,” he added.
whileAnd The private plane of the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, landed at Machulychye military airport near Minsk, Belarus. This was reported by Ukrainska Pravda. He writes that the plane arrived at the airport at 6.40 am local time from Rostov-on-Don. A few minutes later, another plane from St. Petersburg landed at the same airport.
After his sensational march towards Moscow last Saturday, which traveled hundreds of kilometers from the Russian capital, Prigozhin was seen in Rostov, coordinating the withdrawal from the city of Wagner’s men, and yesterday, after two days of obscurity and speculation, he released an 11. minute sound on his Telegram channels , in which he said that the reason for his rebellion was not his desire to overthrow President Vladimir Putin, but rather to prevent the “destruction” of Wagner.
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Sources to CNN: “Don’t take advantage of the chaos to strike inside Russia” (ANSA)
However, there is still nothing clear about what really happened and what the consequences will be. Proof of this is the fact that Prigozhin himself was still accused by the Prosecutor General’s Office of armed rebellion and at the same time his company resumed its “usual” activities at the headquarters of St. Petersburg and in several other cities where recruitment. On the other side, The Russian agencies, the FSB, closed the criminal case file on the armed rebellion against the militias of the Wagner Group, stating that “its participants stopped actions directly aimed at committing the rebellion.”. Russian agencies are reporting it.
But not all of Wagner’s militia remained loyal to Prigozhin, as Wagner’s boss bragged, and indeed some were spared lashing out on social media when the rebellion subsided. According to online messages analyzed by BBC Verify, Members of Wagner’s troops and their relatives were outraged by the decision to stop the dramatic march to Moscow and withdraw from the captured city of Rostov. while others shouted conspiracy.
“The damned bald man destroyed Wagner with his own hands. He destroyed everything he could,” said a netizen who claims to be a Wagner fighter in an online post on his Telegram channel with 200,000 followers. “It was another senseless riot,” he added. Prigozhin had announced on Telegram the “march of justice” against the Russian regime, and now the channel has become the arena in which many have turned against him.
Mark Krotov, a correspondent for the Russian RFE/RL service, who has access to Telegram group chats used by relatives of Wagner fighters, shared some of their messages with the BBC. “They just got betrayed,” one woman wrote. “I trusted Prigozhin, but what he did is a shame.” “He shouldn’t have done that. This is pure treason.” Another user agreed.
One of the main question marks after the Kremlin announced on Saturday night that on the basis of the agreement brokered by Lukashenko Prigozhin would go to Minsk. Some Telegram channels and Kyiv Post wrote that he had already been spotted at a hotel in the Belarusian capital, the Green City Hotel. But the management, contacted by the Russian broadcaster Rtvi, said it could not confirm the news. In addition to Lukashenko’s press service, let us know that they have no information about it.
Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian government does not know whether Prigozhin arrived in Belarus.
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