Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Wagner supporters who want to defend Russia after the Wagner group-led uprising on June 23-24 to “continue their service with guns in hand”.
Vyacheslav VolodinPresident of the Duma, or lower house of the Russian Parliament, assured this Sunday that many of the Mercenaries of the Wagner groupwho rebelled last weekend will continue to serve Russia.
the russian president, Wladimir Putinhe suggested to the Wagnerians that they want to defend Russia.continue their service, guns in hand“. As emphasized by Volodin, “many of them accepted”.
The legislature points out that the Uprising led by the Wagner groupon June 23 and 24, led by his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhinand that it was dismantled through an agreement when the mercenaries approached Moscow “showed how highly regarded the President (Putin) is in civil society and in the military,” according to Volodin.
In his opinion, “Putin got out of this extremely difficult situation with his help.” stronger positionsboth in the country and in the world. “If in 1917 and 1991 people like Putin had been at the head of the state”there would have been no revolution nor would the Soviet Union have disintegrated,” concluded the Duma chief.
The Wagner supporters put down their uprising after the Russian President promised to do so Criminal proceedings against her have been discontinuedthat Prigozhin would go to Belarus and that the mercenaries could return to their homes or officially join the armed forces.
Prigozhin’s stated goal, which he failed to achieve, was that dismissal of the Secretary of DefenseSergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed ForcesValeri Gerasimov, whom he has held responsible for the military setbacks in Ukraine and the high number of casualties in the Russian armed forces for months.
