Canada pledged to keep a close eye on tensions in Russia on Saturday as armed rebel mercenaries marched on Moscow before their commander said they were halting their advance.
Global Affairs, which had warned Canadians against all travel to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, said Saturday that “there is a risk of further unrest across the country.”
Prigozhin will move to neighboring Belarus as part of a deal to defuse tensions stemming from the rebellion and the criminal case against him will be closed, the Kremlin said Saturday. It was mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a staunch Putin ally. Prigozhin did not say whether the Kremlin had responded to his demand to oust Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
The U.S. State Department and German Foreign Ministry released little information on the talks, which included the European Union's foreign policy chief. But the State Department reaffirmed the country's support for Ukraine and said it will stay in coordination with allies. But these tensions escalated ahead of the weekend, when an accusation Friday by Prigozhin against Russia's defence minister provoked the country's top counterterrorism organization to launch a criminal inquiry against the mercenary leader and call for his arrest.
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