Posted on 06/24/2023 1:42:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Kremlin has forged a deal with Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to defuse the mercenary group's uprising on Saturday.
In exchange for Prigozhin's exile to Belarus, the mercenary leader won't be prosecuted, the Associated Press reported, citing a Kremlin spokesperson.
The reported agreement comes after a paramilitary rebellion on Saturday in which the Wagner Group marched across Russia before suddenly turning around just 120 miles from Moscow. Prigozhin said he didn't want to shed Russian blood.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced Saturday that Prigozhin — and the troops who follow him — will not face criminal prosecution as part of the deal. He also said those troops who did not join in the uprising would be offered Defense Ministry contracts.
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We’ll see what shakes out, I guess.
Night of the Long Knives is coming to Belarus.
this whole thing doesn’t feel right - Putin calls him a traitor then allows him ‘refuge’ elsewhere. uh no. Prigozhin is hardly a dummy - and yet hadn’t figured out his end game in Moscow? it looks like a big opening for Ukraine to advance - but something feels off as the main players are not acting according to type.
Putin is a dead man walking... But not for long... Within the week he will just be a dead man.
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