In a five-minute Monday address, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Wagner group “traitors” and condemned the march of mutiny as playing into the hands of Ukraine, who wanted to see the country “drowned in a bloody domestic strife.” As previously reported, Wagner’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and others involved in the uprising will not be spared from the Kremlin’s criminal prosecution , although that agreement was reported to be the condition upon which the march to Moscow was called off on Saturday.
Prigozhin released a statement denying that the march had been an attempt to seize power in the Kremlin, instead painting it as a somewhat democratic march and display of opposition regarding demanded contracts Wagner’s fighters were to sign from the Ministry of Defense, leaving the militia to be disbanded by July 1.
In his speech, Putin did not mention Prigozhin by name or any statements about […]
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