Belarus brokered a truce between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, averting an armed confrontation that threatened civil war. Follow the latest updates.
, and the rebels, averting an armed confrontation that threatened to plunge the country into civil war.caused by the Ukraine war—one the Kremlin had hoped would victoriously unite the country—and poses the gravest existential threat yet to Putin’s 23-year rule.in the southern Russian city of Rostov, some 600 miles south of the capital.
Lukashenko said he spent most of Saturday negotiating with Putin and Wagner’s owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He said an agreement was reached to end the confrontation, with a view that “unleashing a bloodbath on the territory of Russia was unacceptable.”As part of the agreement, Prigozhin will leave Russia for Belarus, and criminal charges against him will be dropped, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Prigozhin’s fighters will be allowed to sign contracts with the Russian military.
High salaries and a flexible if fiercely brutal culture helped Wagner begin to recruit away the regular military’s best officers and soldiers.
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