![]() ![]() ![]() Until this morning, the same was true for one of the generals he was trying to topple, Valery Gerasimov.Ĭoincidentally, just hours after General Gerasimov made his first appearance since the rebellion, French media has reported the location of Mr Prigozhin: Moscow.Īccording to the news site Liberation, the Wagner leader has been in the capital since 1 July. The whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been the source of speculation since his aborted coup in June. "It is clear that Putin does not dare censor him, certainly not bring charges of mutiny against him and all the time he is discussing and talking with him, this is a weakness we have not seen in Putin before," he said.įor context: Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a rebellion against Russia's top military brass on 24 June which saw Wagner mercenaries march toward Moscow, taking Russian towns and cities as they went, only to suddenly capitulate after advancing more than 200 miles with little resistance. Mr Prigozhin was meant to leave for Belarus under the terms of a deal struck with the Kremlin, but President Alexander Lukashenko said last week the Wagner leader was back in Russia and his fighters had not taken up an offer to relocate across the border.įormer UK foreign secretary Lord Owen said Mr Prigozhin's "very serious outbreak of independence" has not yet received any "serious attack from Putin". In a three-hour meeting with 35 people, two Wagner unit commanders told Putin they would continue to fight for him, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. "I welcome this long-awaited decision that shortens our path to NATO," Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said.īack to Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Kremlin has said he met with Vladimir Putin on 29 June. "And it will be an absolute danger, a threat to our country, which will require from us a sufficiently clear and firm reaction."įollowing "intensive" talks, Ukraine said NATO has dropped the requirement for it to follow the Membership Action Plan - a pathway to join the alliance in which an applicant submits annual programmes on their preparations for integration in political, economic, defence, resource, security and legal spheres. The alliance has decided to drop a bureaucratic requirement for membership, enabling Ukraine to join faster when the war ends, Ukraine's foreign minister said today.Īnd tomorrow NATO will hold a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine.īut Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "You know the absolutely clear and consistent position of the Russian Federation that Ukraine's membership in NATO will have very, very negative consequences for the security architecture, the already half-destroyed security architecture in Europe. Russia has threatened NATO with a "fairly clear and harsh" response if Ukraine is allowed to join. ![]()
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