The Kremlin head has assured that he will “keep his promise” that the mercenaries who revolted will not face criminal charges.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putintoday offered the mercenaries of the Wagner group who rebelled against the military leadership over the weekend to join the country’s regular army or go to Belarus with their leader, Yevgueni Prigozhin.
“Today they have the opportunity to continue serving Russia by signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense (…), return to their relatives and friends. Or those who want can go to Belarus,” said the president in an address to the nation
That has been assured by the head of the Kremlin “will keep his promise” that the mercenaries who rebelled will not be prosecuted, within the framework of the agreement reached Prigozhin on Saturday under the mediation of the Belarusian president, Alexandr Lukashenko, and after the chief of the Wagners ordered the return of his men to their bases before they arrived in the Russian capital.
In return, he received a guarantee that he would not be tried for organizing an armed uprising, a charge for which he could have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. In addition, he will have to go into exile in Belarus.
Putin, who had been silent since his address to the nation on Saturday morning when he described the mutinous Wagnerites as traitors and promised to punish them, this Monday assured that “at least an armed uprising would have been crushed”. but that its organizers had recognized this and that they had “resorted to criminal acts”.
He has said that the purpose of the mutiny, which took place when “our comrades are dying” at the front, he stated, was “divide and weaken the country”facing a “colossal external threat” and “unprecedented external pressure,” it warned.
Despite all this, he insisted, “the organizers of the uprising, who betrayed their country, their people” were promoting a “fratricide”, exactly what Russia’s enemies wanted, both the “neo-Nazis in Kiev as their western patrons and all sorts of national traitors”.
He wanted to make it clear that from the moment the uprising started on Friday night – when the mercenaries from the Ukraine crossed the border of Russia’s Rostov region, took the city of Rostov-on-Don and started marching on Moscow – he gave direct orders to “many many prevent bloodshed”.
Finally he gave thanks to Lukashenko for his efforts and his “contribution to the peaceful resolution of the situation”.
Source: EITB
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