2023-06-27 11:15:26
Neither the army nor the Russian population supported the armed rebellion of the group Wagnerstated this Tuesday Vladimir Putinduring a speech before the security forces in the Kremlin, in Moscow.
The military and security services of Russia managed to stop a civil war during the 24-hour armed rebellion of the group of russian mercenaries Wagnerdeclared the Russian president today, Vladimir Putin.
“You protected the constitutional order, the life, security and freedom of our citizens, you saved our country from shocks, you stopped a civil war,” he said during an act in the square of the Kremlin Cathedrals.
There he brought together representatives of security agencies and the Defense of Russia who participated in the anti-terrorist operation over the weekend.
According to the president, the military and agents of the intelligence services “cut off the road to the rebellion, whose inevitable result would have been chaos.”
“In this difficult situation they acted with precision, in coordination, they showed their fidelity to the people of Russia and their military oath, they showed their responsibility before the destiny of the country and its future,” he said.
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Putin He recalled that the uniformed officers “guaranteed the work of the main command centers, the strategic installations, including those of Defense, the security of the border areas and the rear of all the units that continued to fight heroically at the front.”
“We did not have to withdraw units from the area of the special military operation” in Ukraineheld.
He recalled the death of several pilots during the uprising, stating that “their hands did not tremble and they honorably fulfilled their orders and their military duty”, for which he called to honor the memory of the fallen with a minute of silence.
“Your determination and courage, along with the consolidation of the entire russian societyThey played a huge and definitive role in stabilizing the situation. The people who were involved in the revolt saw that the Army and the people were not on their side,” he added.
According to the Russian investigative website “Important Stories”, Wagner’s boss flew following the Rostov-on-Don riot to St. Petersburg, from where he made other flights on Sunday to return to Russia’s former imperial capital in the followingnoon.
Plane of the chief of the Wagner Group would have landed in Belarus
The private plane of the head of the Grupo WagnerYevgeny Prigozhin landed on Tuesday at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk, according to the Belarusian research team Gayun, which is dedicated to monitoring military activity on Belarusian territory.
The plane landed at 07:37 local time (04:37 GMT), according to data from the Flightradar24 flight tracking page. It is an Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft with registration number RA-02795 and was included on the US sanctions list in 2019 for its connection to Prigozhin, albeit with its old registration, M-SAAN.
According to Gayun, another private plane with the number RA-02878 took off from St. Petersburg and landed at 07:58 local time, also at the Machulishchi military airfield.
It is unknown for now if Prigozhin was on board one of these planes following reaching an agreement with the Kremlin on Saturday to go into exile in Belarus and not be criminally prosecuted in exchange for stopping the uprising.
Already the day before, some Telegram channels claimed to have seen the 62-year-old businessman in a hotel in Minsk. (With information from EFE)
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