Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin announced a halt to apparent mutiny, after Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime claimed to have brokered talks between the warlord and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters,” Prigozhin announced on social media. “Now, the moment has come when blood may spill. That’s why, understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan.”That statement points to an abrupt end to a frenzy that appeared to present Putin with the most dramatic challenge to his authority since he rose to power in 1999.
The announcement could drop the curtain once again on the oft-mysterious struggle that organizes the various power centers in Putin's Russia. Lukashenko, a Putin client, took credit for the apparent breakthrough, as the Belarusian regime announced that he had spoken to Putin and Prigozhin and arranged"an absolutely profitable" deal to end the crisis.
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