Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Saturday that he had arranged a deal whereby Wagner Group leader Evgeny Prigozhin will abandon his mutiny in exchange for “security guarantees” for his fighters.
“Evgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of President Alexander Lukashenko to stop the movement of armed men of Wagner in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate tension,” read a statement from Lukashenko’s office.
According to the statement, Lukashenko and Prigozhin held talks for the “whole day,” and “came to an agreement on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloodbath on the territory of Russia.”
Lukashenko’s office said that the talks were held in coordination with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that Prigozhin was offered “an advantageous and acceptable option of resolving the situation, with security guarantees for the Wagner PMC fighters.”
The news came as a Wagner convoy drew closer to Moscow, several hours after members of the private military outfit passed through the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. In a series of video statements released since Friday, Prigozhin declared that he was advancing on Moscow to confront Russian military officials he deemed corrupt.
Prigozhin garnered no support from the Russian establishment. Instead, Putin accused the Wagner chief of “backstabbing our country and our people,” while Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal investigation into Prigozhin for “calling for an armed rebellion.”
Senior Russian political and military figures denounced Prigozhin’s mutiny, and called on Wagner fighters to lay down their arms.
Shortly after Lukashenko’s announcement, Prigozhin confirmed that his troops were abandoning their push to Moscow and returning to their field camps.
-RT
This has been confirmed in enough “official” places it’s worth sharing.
See my previous story on this:
I really hope this fcukin clown gets arrested, charged, and imprisoned. They in fact started an insurrection.
I agree with you. He needs a straight jacket and Thorazine, then tossed into a padded cell until competent to stand trial.
The NATOstani coup hopes went up in smoke rather quickly.
I just want one question answered: how come Russian military intelligence didn’t know of this “coup” while it was still in the making? If it didn’t it is more incompetent than any local police station. If it did, then it was a staged operation with at least parts of the Russian government fully in the know. What the motivation was remains to be discovered.
On my blog last night while the March On Moscow was still on I wrote an article directly comparing it to the Kornilov Coup. With the abrupt collapse it looks even more like Kornilov Part II. (Not that Prigozhin can be compared to Kornilov, an actual and talented military commander.)
Interesting comparison, I mean Kornilov. But he went against the Provisional Government, a thing that has more parallels in the Yeltsin-era. I had Kronstadt on my mind, a much more sinister and potentially much more dangerous thing but with a strong central government.