After a short-lived mutiny, Russia's mercenary Wagner Group is being disbanded and fighters can either join the army or leave for Belarus
—that saw the charges against Prigozhin dropped in exchange for him leaving the country.
A private jet linked to Prigozhin arrived in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, on Tuesday morning. But it has not yet been confirmed if the Wagner chief was onboard, and the Kremlin has said it has no information on his whereabouts. Prigozhin spoke out on Monday for the first time since the aborted rebellion, releasing an 11-minute audio statement in which he said the march was a retaliation in regards to a Russian rocket attack that killed 30 of his fighters. “We started our march because of an injustice,” Prigozhin said, according to translations by
. “Civilians came out to meet us with Russian flags and Wagner emblems, they were happy when we arrived and walked past them.”On Tuesday, Putin addressed military personnel at the Kremlin and called for a minute’s silence to honor pilots who died during the march. “You’ve essentially stopped a civil war, you acted properly and in a coordinated manner,” he told personnel. He added that Wagner Group did not have the support of the army or the Russian people, the BBC reported.
According to Krieg, Putin may try to compensate for any loss of Wagner forces by adding additional Chechen soldiers or finding other ways to integrate new forces. But Russian forces are still likely to suffer a setback in the long run from the loss of the highly mobile Wagner fighters, he adds.
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