Prigozhin is believed to be going into exile after Moscow drops criminal case over mercenary’s attempted mutiny against Russian military
He was last seen in public on Saturday night, smiling and high-fiving bystanders as he rode out of Rostov in the back of an SUV after ordering his men to stand down.said in an address on Monday night that the mutiny leaders had betrayed their motherland, although he did not mention Prigozhin by name. Putin said Wagner fighters would be permitted to establish themselves in Belarus, join the Russian military or go home.
“We went as a demonstration of protest, not to overthrow the government of the country,” Prigozhin said in an audio message on Monday. Russia’s enemies wanted to see the country “choke in bloody civil strife” but Russia would not succumb to “any blackmail, any attempt to create internal turmoil,” Putin said.
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