Return to the barracks of the Wagner militia. Fighters from the Yevgeny Prigozhin paramilitary group, which took control of the army headquarters in Rostov, have evacuated the southwestern Russian city, regional governor Vasily Golubev announced overnight Saturday, June 24-Sunday, June 25. “The Wagner group column left Rostov and headed for their camps,” he wrote on Telegram, without giving any further details. Follow our live.
Yevgeny Prigoyine to Belarus? We didn’t know on Sunday morning the whereabouts of boisterous Wagner’s boss, who had promised the day before to “liberate the Russian people” by sending his troops towards Moscow before turning back. While the exact terms of the deal with Wagner remain a subject of speculation, the Kremlin has given assurances that charges against the militia leader will be “dropped” after his uprising and that the paramilitary “will go to Belarus”.
The Kremlin welcomes “a solution without new losses”. Russian President Vladimir Putin is “grateful” to his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko, who mediated with Yevgeny Prigoyine to resolve the crisis. Moscow welcomed “a solution without new casualties” that would allow “a bloodbath to be avoided” and assured that these events would “in no case” affect the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
“Prigozhin humiliated Putin,” says Kiev. The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner had “humiliated Putin” by leading an insurgency with his men, an aide to Ukraine’s president reacted Saturday night to the day of the armed uprising that shook Russia’s power.