The fighters of the Russian mercenary group Wagner were withdrawing from the Russian region of Voronezh, the scene of the abortive march on the way to Moscow, the governor of that city near the border with Ukraine announced this morning.
“Units of the Wagner paramilitary group are completing their withdrawal from the territory of the Voronezh region,” Governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram, assuring that everything is going “normally, without incident.”
Early Saturday afternoon, the governor of that Russian region had announced “combat measures” in the face of Wagner’s advance, after this paramilitary group claimed, on Friday, the occupation of Rostov, a key city in southern Russia. for the war. in the Ukraine, heading north through Voronezh towards Moscow.
Late on Saturday afternoon, the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ended up, however, suspending the rebellion movements against the Russian military command, after having negotiated an agreement with the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the group’s action a rebellion, saying it was a “deadly threat” to the Russian state and treason, guaranteeing that “civil war” would not ensue.
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
