The information was put forward on the social network Twitter by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov after speaking with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“We talked about recent events in Russia. We agreed that the Russian authorities are weak and that withdrawing Russian troops from Ukraine is the Kremlin’s best choice. Russia would be better off solving its own problems’ wrote Reznikov.
The Ukrainian defense minister added that the US military’s counter-offensive and next steps to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces were also discussed.
“It’s going in the right direction. Ukraine will win,” he stressed.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Saturday suspended movements of the uprising in Russia against the military command, less than 24 hours after occupying Rostov, a key city in the south of the country before the war in Ukraine .
Prior to the suspension, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin described the group’s action as a rebellion, saying it represented a “mortal threat” to the Russian state and treason, while Prigozshin accused the Russian military of attacking mercenary camps, causing “a very large number of casualties”, allegations that expose deep tensions within Moscow’s armed forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
At the end of the day, Prigozhin announced that he had negotiated an agreement with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Source: DN
