Mercenary group’s head safeguards aborted mutiny for exposing failures of Moscow’s military management Residents of Rostov-on-Don watch as Wagner group mercenary fighters start pulling out of the headoffice of the Southern Military District on Saturday night. (Photo: Reuters) MOSCOW: Russia was preparing on Tuesday to take belongings of heavy military hardware held by Wagner as Moscow moved to bring the mercenary group under its control after its aborted mutiny. The uprising over the weekend stimulated Russia’s most severe security crisis in years, raising concerns over President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power as his project in Ukraine drags on. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was to leave for Belarus in a offer to pacify the fight, with Russia’s FSB stating on Tuesday that the criminal case versus the group’s soldiers was now closed. “Preparations are under method for the transfer of heavy military devices from the personal military business Wagner to systems of the Russian armed forces,” the defence ministry stated. Putin on Monday implicated Ukraine and its Western allies of desiring Russians to “kill each other” throughout the revolt, which shocked the nation. In his veryfirst address to the country giventhat the rebels pulled back, Putin stated he had provided orders to prevent bloodshed and given amnesty to the Wagner fighters. Prigozhin had earlier safeguarded his aborted mutiny as a quote to conserve his mercenary clothing and expose the failures of Russia’s military management — however not to obstacle the Kremlin. The rogue warlord’s initially audio message because calling off his soldiers’ advance on Moscow was launched as Russian authorities tried to present the public with a return to organization as typical, with authorities in the capital standing down their enhan
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