The situation in Moscow is getting worse, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries are already at the gates of the Russian capital. Many Russians tried to leave Moscow at the last minute, direct flights out of the country are fully booked. Another mystery is the whereabouts of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
There has already been speculation on social networks that the Moscow elite will leave the city in the face of approaching Wagner mercenaries. Several private flights from Russia were tracked on the Flightradar24 platform. As the magazine “Spiegel” reported, his correspondent looked at the current development of air tickets and found out: tickets for direct connections from Moscow to Tbilisi, Astana and Istanbul no longer exist.
Putin’s machine started?
And Vladimir Putin’s plane is said to have taken off in Moscow and disappeared from the radar a short time later. It was officially said that Putin would work “quite normally” in his office – but given the advancing Wagner mercenaries, this seems increasingly unlikely. Especially since the troops of Prigozhin, who was once close to Putin, apparently did not encounter any significant resistance.
According to unconfirmed reports, Wagner’s march towards Moscow is already affecting Russia’s allies. Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko is said to have left Minsk on Saturday evening.
The latest developments in the live blog:
Putin speaks of “betrayal”
Putin himself spoke in a televised speech on Saturday about “betrayal” and “a slap in the back”. He demanded that the masterminds of the rebellion face their “unavoidable punishment”. He ordered the armed forces to do this. The state agency Ria Nowosti wrote about an order to “neutralize”, that is, to eliminate the rebellious Wagner people. But that was an interpretation. Putin himself did not use the word “neutralization”.
Source: Krone
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