China’s reaction was muted through the weekend to the internal crisis facing Russian President Vladimir Putin, following a brief rebellion by Wagner Group mercenaries.
China’s reaction was muted through the weekend to the internal crisis facing Russian President Vladimir Putin, following a brief rebellion by Wagner Group mercenaries who brought an unprecedented threat to the Russian leader’s longtime grip on power.
The People’s Daily Online linked to an article by Xinhua, the Chinese state-run news wire, which summarized the friction between Mr. Putin and Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said Saturday that he had called off the group’s rebellion to “avoid “shedding Russian blood.” The mercenaries were then halted Saturday when a deal was suddenly announced between Mr. Putin and Mr. Prigozhin, under which the Wagner Group chief would leave Russia and go to neighboring Belarus — a country that has supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A Kremlin spokesman said charges against Mr. Prigozhin for mounting the armed rebellion would be dropped, and Mr. Prigozhin subsequently ordered his troops back to their field camps.
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