Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho defended this Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has sown wind” and will therefore “reap storms”, such as the movements of the uprising in Russia against the military command.
“With regard to the most recent events in Russia, we know that whoever sows wind reaps storm and that the resident Putin has sown wind,” said the head of Portugal’s diplomacy.
Speaking to Portuguese journalists at the entrance of the meeting with his EU counterparts, João Gomes Cravinho added that Putin “did it by promoting a private mercenary army, which proved capable of challenging the Russian armed forces”, and ” did it by illegally invading Ukraine”.
“Our goal is to continue to support Ukraine so that Ukraine determines the peace terms, which is necessary,” the foreign minister stressed.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has suspended uprising movements 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.
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”.
At the end of the day on Saturday, which reported the advance of Wagner troops to about 200 kilometers from Moscow, 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 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.
Source: DN
