“It took some time for the wrongdoers to reverse their decision,” the Russian leader announced this evening. “The adventure they engaged in led to a crime and a crisis, and the soldiers and generals of Wagner’s company showed wisdom by stopping at the threshold of what they might have done.”.
“Now they can join the Russian Ministry of Defense or go back to their families. This promise of mine will be fulfilled. I repeat: the choice is yours,” Vladimir Putin assured in his announcements to the country. Putin thanked Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for his “influence towards a peaceful outcome”.
“From the beginning of events, All decisions have been taken to neutralize the threat and protect the lives and safety of our citizens. “The armed riots have been quelled and the organizers must understand this,” he said.
“They know they are launching criminal activities in a country that faces a massive external threat today,” the president added.
Putin took the opportunity to first praise the players of the Wagner group, whom he called “patriots of Russia.”
“They proved it by publishing [a região ucraniana do] They did not turn their arms against Donbass and the brothers they had already fought shoulder to shoulder.Russian President announced.
As for the organizers of the rebellion, the words condemned, but without touching the name of the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigog. “The organizers of the uprising betrayed us and they also betrayed their accomplices,” declared Vladimir Putin.
“They pushed these people to shoot their own comrades. That is what western teachers and foreigners wanted: Russians will kill each other, Russia will lose, society will be bloody,” he concluded.
“The courage of the slain pilots helped save Russia from bloodshed,” he declared.
Russian President this Monday Meeting with the head of the main security service of Russia and the minister of defenseSergei Shoigu and other ministers.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency.
“I have joined you in this meeting to thank you for your work in recent days and to discuss the situation”Vladimir Putin said at the beginning of the meeting.
Among the participants were the head of the Kremlin administration, Attorney General Igor Krasnov, Interior Minister Anton Vaino, Director of the Federal Security Service Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Alexander Portnikov, and National Guard Chief Viktor Zolotov. , the head of the Federal Security Service, Dmitry Kochnev, and the head of the investigative committee, Alexander Pastrykin.