Members of Wagner Group examine a automobile in a road of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.
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Members of Wagner Group examine a automobile in a road of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.
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MOSCOW — The pinnacle of the Wagner mercenary group mentioned his forces have been ending a march on the Russian capital after demanding the resignation of the nation’s high protection officers over alleged failures within the struggle in Ukraine.
In an announcement to his Telegram social media account, Yevgeny Prigozhin mentioned his fighters had led a “march for justice” over the previous 24 hours that noticed them journey from the southern Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don to the outskirts of Moscow
“The entire time, not one drop of blood of our fighters was spilled,” Prigozhin mentioned. “However now the second has arrived when blood might be spilt.”
To keep away from such a state of affairs, Prigozhin mentioned he had ordered his forces to “flip our columns round and go in the other way again to a discipline camp as deliberate.”
The sudden about-face appeared to hit pause on a political disaster that grew out of months of infighting between Russia’s high brass and Prigozhin over the state of the navy marketing campaign in Ukraine.
In defusing the disaster, the Kremlin additionally appeared to get an help from its ally — Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
Lukashenko’s press workplace mentioned, with the Kremlin’s permission, that the Belarusian chief had carried out negotiations with Prigozhin “all through your entire day” geared toward deescalating the feud between Wagner and the Russian navy.
“Consequently, they got here to an settlement on the unacceptability of the beginning of bloody battles on Russian territory,” the assertion mentioned.