“Our comrades are dead. They did not flinch and honorably fulfilled the order and their military duty. I ask you to honor their memory with a minute of silence,” he said.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Putin would meet with some military personnel separately. According to a Kremlin spokesman, the call to the police and the meeting with the military are “two rather important events”.
In addition, in the evening, Putin will hold a meeting with Russian media leaders, informed Peskov. “There will be both traditional electronic media and new media,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
Putin is to have an international phone call in the morning, an announcement on this will be “soon”, his spokesman promised.
On the evening of June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin announced rocket fire at the rear positions of the Wagner PMC and said that 25,000 people would “understand why chaos is happening in the country.” On the same day, the FSB opened a criminal investigation against him for organizing an armed rebellion. The next day, June 24, PMC fighters entered Rostov-on-Don and occupied military installations there. On the evening of June 24, the press service of the President of Belarus reported that Alexander Lukashenko, “in agreement” with his Russian counterpart, held talks with Prigozhin. As a result, the PMC founder agreed to halt the advance towards Moscow. According to a Kremlin spokesman, Prigozhin will leave for Belarus and the criminal case against him will be closed. On June 26, Vladimir Putin said that the fighters and commanders of the Wagner PMC units had taken the only right decision to prevent “fratricidal bloodshed”. He also offered them three options for the further development of events – to conclude a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense or other law enforcement agencies, to return to relatives and friends or “to leave for Belarus”. June 27, RIA Novosti, citing the FSB, reported that the file of the armed rebellion had been closed. How claim in the special department, during the investigation of the case, it was established that its participants stopped actions aimed at committing a crime.
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