“Yes, indeed, he is in Belarus today,” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
confirmed to BELTA.
“As I’ve promised, if you want to spend some time in our country and the rest, we will help you. Naturally at [your] expense,” he said of the exiled leader and his men.
Lukashenko, the Putin ally who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for 29 years, also confirmed in a Tuesday address that he had put his own armed forces on a combat footing as the weekend mutiny unfolded, framing it as an existential risk to the region.
“If Russia collapses, we all will perish under the debris,” he said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, told a news briefing Tuesday that Putin had provided Prigozhin with “certain promises … certain guarantees” with the apparent amnesty deal in Belarus aimed at avoiding a “worst-case scenario.”
Despite Putin’s own admission that it had been close to “a civil war,” Peskov dismissed suggestions that Putin’s grip on power had been shaken as “hysteria.”
The Wagner Group has played a key role in the 16-month Ukraine war — leaving Prigozhin furious with how military leaders ran the drawn-out mission.
On Monday, the ex-convict once dubbed “Putin’s Chef” claimed his weekend march on Moscow wasn’t a coup but a “master class” in how the war should have been waged.
“We went as a demonstration of protest, not to overthrow the government of the country,” Prigozhin claimed.
Prigozhin had sought to remove Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu — who was instead by Putin’s side during Tuesday’s military event, a clear show of support.
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The Wagner soldiers have to sign a contract at the start of July to work for the Russian government or they will be allowed to go back to living as civilians in Russian society “under the watchful eyes of the Kremlin,” the report added.
A source close to Prigozhin said that the FSB has “started shaking down sympathizers and those who violated their oath” during the mutiny, according to a report from the Financial Times.
The report said that the Russian government is now moving to remove “patriotic hardliners” from key positions of power within the government and is now focused on elevating Putin loyalists.
The Moscow Times reported that multiple sources confirmed to the publication that Russian General Sergei Surovikin was arrested because he “chose the side [of Prigozhin during the rebellion] and they grabbed him by the balls.”
The source, when asked where Surovikin was, said: “We don’t even comment on this information through internal channels.”
Another source appeared to say that Surovikin sided with Prigozhin “for power.”
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-- I would like to know what Main-Stream-Media thinks the Russian President should do with Dissenters, Sympathizers' and Traitors. Pat them on top of their heads with a wag of the Finger saying No No No..? The Wagner Group was part of a coup to try to take power from Putin.
If you're going to run with the big dogs, you can't pee like a puppy. ~ TBT--
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