Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin announced a halt to apparent mutiny, after Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime claimed to have brokered talks between the warlord and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters,” Prigozhin announced on social media. “Now, the moment has come when blood may spill. That’s why, understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan.”That statement points to an abrupt end to a frenzy that appeared to present Putin with the most dramatic challenge to his authority since he rose to power in 1999.
“They were going to dismantle PMC Wagner,” Prigozhin said, per a War Translated rendering of his remarks. “In a day, we walked to nearly 200km away from Moscow.” The announcement could drop the curtain once again on the oft-mysterious struggle that organizes the various power centers in Putin's Russia.
"Much will depend on the next 24 hours and whether [Prigozhin] has gathered enough support not to be crushed quickly," a senior European official told the Washington Examiner earlier Saturday."I think that everyone understands that Putin has made a catastrophic mistake with [the war in Ukraine]. What to do now for the best is not obvious. There are many groupings with specific interests.
“Negotiations continued throughout the day. As a result, they came to agreements on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia,” Lukashenko’s press service announced, per The Moscow Times. “Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted President Alexander Lukashenko’s proposal to stop the movement of Wagner’s armed men in Russia and to take further steps to de-escalate tensions.”
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