The army coup in Russia helmed by means of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin got here to a unexpected halt after a deal was once brokered between Moscow and the Wagner mercenary. Prigozhin will now depart for Belarus and the entire fees towards him and his combatants can be dropped. Now not many main points of the deal that quelled the coup have been to be had however it was once brokered by means of Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus president and Putin’s best friend.
The place are Prigozhin and his troops now
Prigozhin’s troops on Saturday invaded Rostov-on-Don. His troops would have reached Moscow in 24 hours however he introduced that he was once taking flight his troops as Russian blood might be shed. From Rostov, his troops moved via Lipetsk.
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What’s the deal that Moscow agreed to prevent Prigozhin
Felony case opened towards Prigozhin for his rebel can be dropped.
Wagner combatants who took section within the rebel would possibly not face any motion.
Prigozhin demanded the elimination of defence minister Sergei Shoigu and leader of the overall group of workers Valery Gerasimov. Kremlin has no longer spoken a phrase on that call for.
Kremlin watchers aren’t satisfied that those are the one stipulations of the deal. NBC Information’s Richard Engel tweeted, “Possibly he (Progozhin) will get to stay his African empire and perform his pirate state from in another country? Murky mafia-style politics and I believe they aren’t over.”
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov mentioned, “Mafia is as mafi does. No matter deal was once reached nowadays, blood has been spilled and Putin’s phantasm of invincibility is long past. He and his cronies tasted actual concern. Moscow was once threatened.”
Has Putin fled Moscow?
Because the Wagner troops have been drawing near Moscow on Saturday sooner than the truce was once agreed, one of the vital a number of planes that Putin makes use of took off from Moscow at 2.15pm native time. Stories mentioned it went off radar about 150 kilometres from Putin’s legitimate place of abode not up to part an hour later. Kremlin on the other hand denied that Putin fled Moscow.
