German Defense Minister Boris Pistrorius announced Monday afternoon in Lithuania, where a NATO exercise is taking place, that the Germans will send 4,000 troops to the country to reinforce the Atlantic Alliance contingent. Jens Stoltenberg has already praised this effort by the Berlin government and was aware of the situation in Russia.
“The events of this weekend are an internal affair of Russia, further proof of the great strategic mistake that President Putin made with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the war against Ukraine. We see no indication that Russia is prepared to use nuclear weapons. but NATO remains vigilant,” Stoltenberg said.
The NATO Secretary General also stressed that it is now even more important to maintain support for Kiev, noting that the more successful Ukraine is in its counter-offensive to retake the Ukrainian territories from Russia, “the stronger will be its assets to present in a negotiating table.”
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has suspended the rebellion movements in Russia against the military command, less than 24 hours after having occupied Rostov, a key city in the south of the country for the war in Ukraine.
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.
At the end of the day on Saturday, in which the advance of Wagner’s forces was reported some 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 his mercenary camps, causing “a very high number of victims.”
Source: TSF
