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There were rumors that Putin was going to officially declare war on the Ukraine in his 10:00 PM speech Monday night following the failed coup by Wagner.
Instead, he didn’t really say a lot, simply saying that “most” of the Wagner fighters are patriots who got caught up in something bad.
He didn’t address Prigozhin personally at all.
I’ve seen a lot of people disappointed in the speech. I don’t know what to make of it.
RT:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered a choice to the soldiers of the Wagner private military company involved in Saturday’s failed armed rebellion. They can either sign a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry Ministry or other security agencies, return home or move to neighboring Belarus, the Russian leader said in a televised addressed.
“The overwhelming majority of the fighters and commanders of the Wagner group are also Russian patriots, devoted to their people and country. They proved this with their courage on the battlefield,” Putin said in his address on Monday evening.
The organizers of the insurrection “kept them in the dark and tried using them against their brothers in arms, with whom they fought shoulder to shoulder for the sake of the country and its future,” he said.
The Russian leader thanked the Wagner soldiers and commanders, who “stopped at the last line” and didn’t allow the “fratricidal bloodshed” to take place. He added that the promise he gave during negotiations to settle the crisis will be kept.
“You have the opportunity to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry and other law enforcement agencies or return to your family and friends. Anyone, who wants to, can go to Belarus,” Putin said, addressing the members of the private military company.
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Prigozhin, who said that he launched the insurrection because “they [the Defense Ministry] wanted to disband Wagner PMC,” will leave Russia and “go to Belarus” as a result of the deal, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. The criminal case against Prigozhin will be dropped, with Wagner fighters, who took part in the mutiny, also avoiding prosecution, he added.
I don’t understand what “going to Belarus” means in the context of the Wagner fighters.
It was exile for Prigozhin, but why would his men be allowed to go be with him after a failed coup?
Rumors are that he is going to be allowed to keep working, though I haven’t seen any official confirmation of this. He said in his personal statements on social media that Lukashenko said he could keep working.
I don’t see how you can just have zero consequences for a coup like this. But maybe I’m missing something.
