Advisor to Ukrainian Defense Minister Yuriy Sak described the Wagner group’s uprising as “the most ridiculous attempted mutiny” in history.
“It only weakens Russia and makes us stronger,” Yuriy Sak said on BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend. “What happened in Russia will probably go down in history as the most ridiculous attempted mutiny ever attempted,” he added mockingly. .
“It will not affect our plans. We are on a mission to liberate our country and I can only hope that our allies, seeing this ridiculous riot, understand that the way to end the war in Ukraine is to ensure that Ukraine defeats Russia militarily.”. There is no hope of any kind of internal transformation in Russia. This will only happen on the battlefield,” the defense minister’s adviser hinted
This Saturday night, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency had defended that the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, had “humiliated [o Presidente russo, Vladimir] Putin” by leading an armed uprising against Moscow with his men.
The remark by Mykhaïlo Podoliak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, came after a deal was reached between the Kremlin and the Wagner group brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko after a day of uprising that shook Russian power.
“Prigozhin has humiliated Putin/the state and has shown that there is no longer a legitimate monopoly on violence” in Russia, Mykhailo Podoliak wrote on the social network Twitter.
The leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner suspended uprising movements in Russia against military command late Saturday, less than 24 hours after occupying Rostov, a strategic city for Ukraine’s war, located in the country’s southwest.
Putin classified the group’s action as an insurgency, saying it represented a “mortal threat” to the Russian state and treason, guaranteeing he would not let a “civil war” happen and those responsible would pay for it.
At the end of the day when the advance of the troops of the Wagner group to about 200 kilometers from Moscow was reported, Prigozhin announced that he had negotiated an agreement with the Belarusian president.
Earlier, the leader of the paramilitary group had accused the Russian army of attacking his mercenary camps, causing “a very large number of casualties”, allegations that exposed deep tensions within Moscow’s armed forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin said on Russian state television on Sunday that the country remains confident in its plans for the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“We feel confident and naturally capable of putting into practice all the plans and tasks ahead of us,” he said in the interview, which was reportedly taped before Saturday’s mutiny by Wagner’s mercenary group.
Source: DN
