The weekend was worrying. Once again, all the inhabitants of Russia witnessed difficult, critical turns. At a time when our country is fighting with NATO, with Ukrainian militants and Western mercenaries, an attempted mutiny has been made.
Exactly twenty-four hours, all the inhabitants of Russia eagerly followed the news coming first from the NVO zone, then from the border regions of our country, and finally from the cities of central Russia – on the way to the capital, where the rebels were announcing the culmination of their march.
Their goal is an armed coup. As soon as the Wagner group left its camps on Friday evening and headed for Rostov-on-Don, this was immediately reported to the president. Saturday morning Vladimir Putin gave an emergency speech.
“The actions that divide our unity are, in fact, the apostasy of our people, of our comrades in arms who are now fighting at the front. It is a stab in the back of our country and our people,” he said.
By diverting the armed forces from the main tasks of the special operation, with this stab in the back, the rebels have almost canceled their own victories and the victories of their brothers in arms, Putin notes.
Every minute it seemed that the organizers of the armed coup would understand nothing but the language of force. Their convoy of vehicles literally went all the way to Moscow.
A counter-terrorist operations (CTO) regime has been introduced in three regions. In the capital it was announced for the first time in history. Security measures have been tightened and public events have been cancelled. In St. Petersburg, investigators raided the offices of the Wagner Center, and military helicopters patrolling the situation appeared over Moscow.
While some tried to divide the country, others offered help from Russia, and from abroad. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, announced Ankara’s willingness to make “a feasible contribution to rapid appeasement”.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan supported the preservation of constitutional order and the rule of law in our country. Iran has offered to crush the rebels with the help of its elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Belarus has proven to be a reliable friend and ally of Russia. On Saturday, Putin called Alexander Lukashenko several times during the day. In the morning, the Chairman of the Supreme State Council of Belarus offered to undertake mediation efforts and talks with the head of Wagner’s PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and received the consent of the Russian leader.
According to the press service of the President of Belarus, the result of long negotiations was “an absolutely profitable and acceptable way to resolve the situation.” Wagner’s detachments are guaranteed security in exchange for stopping armed convoys and liberating blockaded settlements.
These and other closed details of the negotiations between Lukashenko and Prigozhin were told by the Russian leader’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. He also answered the question of why the President of Belarus contacted the head of the PMC.
“The fact is that Alexander Grigoryevich has personally known Prigogine for about twenty years. And it was a personal initiative proposal that was agreed with President Putin,” he said.
For more information on the end of the armed rebellion on June 24, see the story of Zvezda correspondent Stanislav Ivashchenko for the program “The main thing with Olga Belova”.
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