The leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, will reside in Belarus and the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office will withdraw the criminal charge against him as part of the agreement to end the advance of the force he commands in Moscow.
This Saturday, the Kremlin announced that Prigozhin will no longer have to face Russian justice, which accused him of “inciting an armed rebellion”, and the spokesman for Russian power, Dmitry Peskov, assured that the “heroic deeds” of the paramilitary commander “They have always been respected.” so “no one will chase him.”
Russia also explains that the agreement – which includes immunity for all members of the Wagner group who fought in Ukraine – was reached to “avoid bloodshed, internal confrontations and fighting with unpredictable results”.
Peskov also assured that it is “out of the question” that the initiative of the Wagner group could have an impact on the Russian military movements against Kiev and publicly thanked the president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko, for having led the negotiations with Prigozhin.
Wagner leaves Rostov
The fighters of the mercenary group, who had been occupying the Russian military headquarters in the city of Rostov, in southwestern Russia since this morning, began to leave the place at the end of the afternoon.
The men led by Prigozhin left aboard minibuses, while the tanks stationed in the city have not yet moved, the French news agency AFP reported on the scene.
The leader of the Wagner paramilitary group suspended the rebellion movements in Russia against the military command, less than 24 hours after having occupied Rostov, a strategic city in the south of the country for the war in Ukraine.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, classified the group’s action as a rebellion, stating that it was a “mortal threat” to the Russian State and a betrayal, guaranteeing that he would not let a “civil war” take place and that you would pay for it. that.
At the end of the day in which the advance of the forces of the Wagner group about 200 kilometers from Moscow was reported, Prigozhin announced that he had negotiated an agreement with the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
Earlier, the head of the paramilitary group accused the Russian army of attacking his mercenary camps, causing “a very high number of casualties,” accusations that expose deep tensions within Moscow’s forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
Source: TSF
