The fighters of the Russian mercenary group Wagner left the Lipetsk region, south of Moscow, where they had entered on Saturday during the rebel march towards the Russian capital, local authorities announced on Sunday.
“The units of the Wagner paramilitary group, which yesterday [sábado] stopped in the Lipetsk region, left the area,” the regional authorities’ press service told Telegram.
The regional capital Lipetsk is located 400 kilometers from Moscow.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin described the group’s action as an insurrection, saying it represented a “mortal threat” to the Russian state and treachery, guaranteeing there would be no “civil war”.
Earlier, the head of the paramilitary group accused the Russian army of attacking its mercenary camps, causing “a very large number of casualties”, accusations that expose deep tensions within Moscow’s armed forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
However, at the end of Saturday afternoon, the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, stopped the movements of the uprising against the Russian military command, after negotiating an agreement with the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Source: DN
