AGI – The private jet of Yevgeny Prigozhinleft the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, landed at Machulishchy air base near Minsk at 07:40 local time. This is reported by the online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, citing Belarusski Hajun, an independent Belarusian military surveillance medium, which in turn relies on flight radar data.
The newspaper also reports that shortly afterwards another jet from St. Petersburg also landed at the same airport in Belarus. Other media also confirm the news: According to Meduza, citing the Belarusian surveillance group Gayun, the Embraer Legacy 600 private jet, which was supposed to be used by Evgeny Prigozhin, landed at Machulishchi military airport near Minsk at 07:40.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has spoken to the nation after the assassination failed coup to avoid bloodshed. And they were adopted Measures taken by direct order of the President himself since the beginning of the events of June 24, said the Russian head of state in his televised address second the TASS agency.
Wladimir Putin
“From the beginning of events, steps were taken under my direct direction to avoid much bloodshed. It has taken some time to give even those who made a mistake a chance to change their minds, to make it clear that…” Their actions have been harshly opposed by society, and it is said to clarify the tragic and devastating consequences the adventure they have been drawn into entails for Russia and our state,” Putin said.
“Wagner becomes a regular militia”
The president believes Russia has proved that the “blackmail” that followed the Wagnerian uprising was doomed to failure. Putin offers them to join the army, go to Belarus or go home.
“Thank you Russians for your resilience, unity and patriotism. This civic solidarity has shown that any blackmail is doomed to fail,” Putin said in an address to the nation, before suggesting that the soldiers of the paramilitary group Wagner sign a contract with the regular army or “return to their families and loved ones” or “go to Belarus”.
“I thank the soldiers and commanders of the Wagner group – Putin said in his message to the nation tonight – that they made the only right decision: they didn’t commit fratricidal bloodshed, they stopped it at the last moment. Today they have the opportunity to continue serving Russia by signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense or other law enforcement agencies, or by returning to relatives and friends. Anyone who wants can go to Belarus. The promise I made will be fulfilled.” Putin noted that the vast majority of Wagner Group fighters and commanders are Russian patriots who are loyal to their people and state and have shown it by their bravery on the battlefield had.
“The armed uprising would be suppressed”
Putin said that from the very beginning of the uprising, the authorities immediately took all necessary decisions to neutralize the threat that had arisen and protect the constitutional order, life and safety of Russians. “An armed uprising would have been suppressed in any case,” stressed the head of state. According to him, the organizers of the rebellion understood this “despite the loss of propriety”.
“They all understood, among other things, that they committed criminal acts, to divide and weaken the country, which now faces a colossal external threat and unprecedented external pressure.” But the organizers of the rebellion have betrayed their country. “This is the very result – fratricide – that the enemies of Russia: Neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their western protectors and all sorts of national traitors. “They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other so that military personnel and civilians could die, so that eventually Russia would lose and our society would be divided, suffocated in a bloody civil war,” the head of state said.
Moscow’s opponents – according to Putin – “wiped their hands and dreamed of taking revenge for their failures at the front and during the so-called counter-offensive, but they miscalculated.” got in the way of the rebels and stayed true to their duty, their oath and their people.” Putin also thanked the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko for his efforts and contribution to the peaceful resolution of the situation.