Posted on 06/24/2023 12:05:05 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has confirmed he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to their field camps in Ukraine to avoid shedding Russian blood.
'We are turning back our columns and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan,' an audio message on his Telegram feed said after a meeting between Prigozhin and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
An uneasy calm has now prevailed on the streets of Moscow in a city that had been preparing for war. The capital had braced for the arrival of forces from the Wagner Group, a private army led by Prigozhin that has been fighting alongside regular Russian troops in Ukraine, by erecting checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops on the city's southern edge. Red Square was shut down, and the mayor urged motorists to stay off some roads.
But Prigozhin announced that while his men were just 200 kilometers (120 miles) from Moscow, he decided to turn them back to avoid 'shedding Russian blood.'
He did not say whether the Kremlin has responded to his demand to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin.
The shock announcement follows a statement from the office of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko saying that he had negotiated a deal with Prigozhin after previously discussing the issue with Putin.
Prigozhin has accepted Lukashenko's offer to halt the Wagner group's advance and further steps to de-escalate the tensions, Lukashenko's office said, adding that the proposed settlement contains security guarantees for Wagner troops. It did not elaborate.
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Ah, did your wet dream leave you depressed?
BREAKING: Prigozhin just took over the Kremlin
and is preparing a public execution for Putin
after invading Russia with 5 pickup trucks.”
- Zeepers (breathlessly!)
Lindsey Graham and the CIA are in 😭 tears. You too 😂
Putin cannot even defend his own capital.
How is this dude going to stay alive? 24-hour guard? All Putin needs is one turncoat among his guards and the right bribe will do it especially among these guys.
Did this guy chicken our because he knew he had already lost?
Thoughts?
Look at this retarded monkey, did he actually think he was gonna take down Putin? I sure as hell wouldn’t put up with this nonsense. Putin is way too much of a softy, I would have taken this punk down long ago.
ЧВК ВАГНЕР = PMC WAGNER
PMC = “Private Military Group”
Cool story, bro
Brandon’s team will try to take credit for this.
Is it even possible to know what is really going on anymore? I think not.
But Biden has transferred the money ($6.2B accounting error, less 15% for the Big Guy (inflation)) to Coups-R-Us, so now he can sit at Camp David with his son and get their lies straight while the rest of the world breathes a huge sigh of relief. What a scam.
He must have led into expecting help from others which did not materialize... Or maybe Russia jammed his link with foreign suppliers of intelligence.
Not only that, he could not afford the loss of his mercenaries in Ukraine, even after they went rogue.
Another round of chemo for Putlim. Put it on my tab.
Prigo is so effed.
Weirdest war I’ve ever seen. Prigo makes it entertaining.
Nothing says Third World country more than having to payoff your “friends” to keep them from invading your crib.
Putin Holds!
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