The Kremlin spokesman says the head of the private Russian military company Wagner owner will move to Belarus as part of deal to defuse rebellion tensions and the criminal case against him will be closed
In this handout photo taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. The owner of the Wagner private military contractor who called for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia's defense minister has confirmed in a video that he and his troops have reached Rostov-on-Don.
A rebellious Russian mercenary commander said Saturday he ordered his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, appearing to defuse a dramatically escalating crisis that represented the most significant challenge to President Vladimir Putin in his more than two decades in power.led by Yevgeny Prigozhin that has been fighting alongside regular Russian troops in Ukraine, by erecting checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops on the city's southern edge.
Putin had vowed harsh consequences for organizers of the armed uprising led by his onetime protege, who brought his forcesIn a televised speech to the nation, Putin called the rebellion a “betrayal” and “treason.” Early Saturday, Prigozhin's private army appeared to control the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, a city 660 miles south of Moscow, which runs Russian operations in Ukraine, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said.
Ukrainians hoped the Russian infighting would create opportunities for its army to take back territory seized by Russian forces. Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, called for Prigozhin’s arrest Friday night after he declared the armed rebellion. It was unclear whether those charges would be dropped.had vowed earlier that his fighters, whom he said number some 25,000, would not surrender because"we do not want the country to live on in corruption, deceit and bureaucracy."
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