Yves right here. I famous a stunning lack of updates in my inbox. It seems that the Prigozhin revolt was an enormous flash within the pan and is on it strategy to being tamped out. Be aware additionally this was the West’s finest shot at their a lot ballyhooed revolt in opposition to Putin and nobody in Russian management, and apparently per Helmer not even any of the Wagner officers, supported it.
By John Helmer, the longest constantly serving international correspondent in Russia, and the one western journalist to direct his personal bureau unbiased of single nationwide or business ties. Helmer has additionally been a professor of political science, and an advisor to authorities heads in Greece, the USA, and Asia. He’s the primary and solely member of a US presidential administration (Jimmy Carter) to ascertain himself in Russia. Initially printed at Dances with Bears
With out the general public assist of any political determine in Russia, navy or police unit, regional governor, or the officers of his Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his thousand rank-and-filers have agreed to return to their base camps on phrases negotiated late on Saturday afternoon between Prigozhin and Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarus President./
The one-armed rise up has failed with recriminations, immunity from prosecution, and nearly no bloodshed. The Kremlin resolution has adopted the precedent of Basic Alexander Lebed’s (lead picture, centre) rise up in opposition to President Boris Yeltsin in 1996, not the violent finish of the rise up of Yemelyan Pugachev (left) of 1773-75.
Dmitry Rogozin, who was one of many strategists of Lebed’s marketing campaign for the presidency and later grew to become a deputy prime minister underneath President Vladimir Putin, made the distinction clear in an announcement he issued early on Saturday, earlier than Putin spoke at 10 o’clock. “I do know the state of affairs on the entrance in addition to Prigozhin and I’ve by no means hidden my place, however regardless of the rationalization for an armed rise up, it’s nonetheless an armed rise up within the rear of a belligerent military. In a warfare, it’s a must to shove your political ambitions up your ass and assist the entrance with all of your would possibly. Any makes an attempt to weaken it are nothing however aiding the enemy.”
One other of Lebed’s comrades of 27 years in the past, Sergei Glazyev, adopted with a repudiation of Prigozhin of his personal. Not one of the well-known critics of Putin on home coverage, nor the navy bloggers who’ve attacked the tactical administration and strategic priorities of the Particular Navy Operation, supported Prigozhin.
The rise up, in response to sources talking on Saturday night, concerned advance planning by Prigozhin and several other hundred of the bottom ranks of his navy group. There was no assist among the many Wagner officers. After that they had moved on Rostov, then took the highway to Voronezh and on in the direction of Moscow, the highway columns numbered a number of hundred, with a complete throughout the southwest of not more than 4 thousand.
An announcement issued by Lukashenko’s workplace in Minsk at 8 within the night stated the rise up was at an finish. “This morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin knowledgeable his Belarusian counterpart concerning the state of affairs within the south of Russia with the non-public navy firm Wagner. The heads of State agreed on joint actions. As a follow-up to the agreements, the President of Belarus, having additional clarified the state of affairs by his personal channels, in coordination with the President of Russia, held talks with the pinnacle of the Wagner PMCS [private military companies], Yevgeny Prigozhin.”
“The negotiations lasted all through the day. In consequence, we got here to an settlement on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody bloodbath on the territory of Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to cease the motion of armed individuals of the Wagner firm on the territory of Russia and additional steps to de-escalate stress. For the time being, there’s a completely worthwhile and acceptable resolution to the state of affairs on the desk, with safety ensures for the fighters of the Wagner PMCs.”
A well-informed Moscow supply says: “The entire thing was deliberate for a number of weeks. Troopers and unit sergeants could be on board. Officers, clearly not. That makes it a mutiny in opposition to commanders. I don’t suppose Prigozhin he’ll go quietly. He’ll try to romanticize himself as a Pugachev and his assassins as peasants defending Russia from oligarchs. Questions can be requested when and which males have been already inside Rostov Navy HQ. Maybe some advance events have been inside.”
There isn’t a publication but of Lukashenko’s phrases which Prigozhin has accepted for himself. Unconfirmed studies in Moscow point out he’ll go away the nation for Africa with one of many Wagner items working there. His media, communications, and web networks have been blocked.
The Struggle of the Worlds weekly broadcast went to air at 12 midday Moscow time. On the time there was appreciable uncertainty within the Russian supply reporting from Rostov and Voronezh; disinformation, faked movies, and panic studies, produced in Kiev, have been circulating within the western media.
Hearken to the evaluation here.
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The official felony cost in opposition to Prigozhin is the armed rise up provision of the Russian Prison Code, Article 279:
Supply: https://www.wto.org/
Earlier than the radio broadcast started, Putin made his 5 minute, 34 second speech to the nation at 10 am. Unusually, he addressed the digicam on his ft. Learn the speech in full here.
There have been no private statements from both Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu or chief of the Basic Workers, Basic Valery Gerasimov, the targets of Prigozhin’s public assaults.
Through the hours of the rise up on Friday and Saturday, alongside the road of contact within the Ukraine there seems to have been no breakthrough by Ukrainian forces. As a substitute, the Russian Protection Ministry has reported: “Tonight, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a bunch strike with high-precision long-range weapons on the centres of radio intelligence and aviation tools of the Ukrainian Air Forces on the Kanatovo airfields within the Kirovograd area, in addition to the Dnipro. All assigned objects are hit. The goal of the strike has been achieved.”
“As well as, on June 23, in response to a strike on a highway bridge throughout the Chongar Strait, a warehouse with Storm Shadow cruise missiles was destroyed at a Ukrainian airbase close to the settlement of Starokonstantinov within the Khmelnitsky area. Through the day, the armed forces of Ukraine continued unsuccessful makes an attempt of offensive actions within the South Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Krasno-Limansk instructions.”
A complete of 515 Ukrainian forces have been reported killed in motion. French Caesar howitzer and US M-777 howitzer items have been reported hit.
A second, companion piece for the printed will comply with on Sunday morning.