Yevgeny Prigozhin, on June 24 during the rebellion of the Wagner group in Ukraine, of which he is the leader Pool / Wagner Group / Zuma Press | EUROPAPRESS
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane arrived at Machulishchi military airfield, near Minsk, on Tuesday, although it is not known if he was on board. Meanwhile, Moscow has closed criminal proceedings against him over the riot that took place last weekend
Private plane Head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhinlanded today at Machulishchi military airport near Minsk (Belarus) according to the research group Gayun, which is dedicated to monitoring military activities on Belarusian territory.
The plane landed at 7:37 a.m. local time (6:37 a.m. in mainland Spain), according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24. It is an Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft, registration number RA-02795, which was included in the US sanctions list in 2019 due to its connection with Prigogina, although with the old registration M-SAAN.
According to Gayun, another private plane with the number RA-02878 took off from St. Petersburg and landed at 7:58 a.m. local time, also at the Machulishchi military airfield. For now, it is not known whether Prigozhin was on one of those planes after he reached an agreement with the Kremlin on Saturday goes into exile in Belarus and not be prosecuted, in exchange for stopping the uprising.
The Russian authorities rejected information about the whereabouts of Prigozhin, who was last seen in public on the night of June 24when he left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don in a vehicle, which he and his mercenaries had captured in order to leave marching in a column towards Moscow. On Monday, without revealing his whereabouts, he posted an audio message on his Telegram channel to ensure that s armed rebellion He did not want to overthrow the Government, but to protest the intentions of the Ministry of Defense to break up his private military company by subordinating it to a military institution.
According to a Russian research portal Important storiesPrigozhin flew for Rebellion in Rostov-on-Don to St. Petersburg, from where he made other flights on Sunday to return to the former imperial capital of Russia in the afternoon.
For his part, he government of Russia confirmed this Tuesday that there are “preparations” for the delivery of “heavy military equipment” in the hands of the Wagner Group, as part of the agreement reached on Saturday.
“Preparations are underway for the transfer of heavy military equipment of the Wagner Group to active units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Defense Ministry, headed by Sergei Shoigu, said in a short message posted on its website. Telegram account.
The announcement came minutes after the Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed the closure of a case opened for armed insurrection after the uprising, a decision taken after an investigation found that “participants stopped their actions on June 24, aimed directly at the commission of the crime,” it said. agency.
The case was opened late on Friday, although on Saturday the Kremlin announced that an agreement had been reached with the Wagner Group to end it advance towards Moscow it included the dismissal of charges against Prigozhin and his transfer to Belarus, of which he is the president Alexander Lukashenko, he worked as a mediator. In addition, members of Wagner’s group would be integrated into the ranks of the army. After the agreement, Prigozhin ordered members of the group to abandon positions taken during the advance, including a withdrawal from the center of the city of Rostov-on-Don, in order to reduce tensions.
On the other hand, Lukashenko confirmed today that he ordered the army to be put on maximum alert when the Wagner Group mercenary rebellion began.
“I have given all relevant instructions to put the army on maximum combat readiness,” the president said at the ceremony of awarding general ranks to the high command. “I will not hide: it was painful to observe the events that took place in the south of Russia. Not just for me. Many of our citizens took them to heart. Because the homeland is one,” he added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, thanked Lukashenko for his “contribution to the peaceful resolution of the situation”, and assured that he would “keep his promise” that the mercenaries who rebelled would not be prosecuted. In addition, he stated that the Russian military and security services managed to stop the civil war.
“You protected the constitutional order, life, safety and freedom of our citizens, saved our country from shocks, stopped the civil war,” he said during the ceremony on Cathedral Square in the Kremlin. There, he gathered representatives of Russian security and defense agencies that participated in the counter-terrorist operation over the weekend.
According to the president, the military and intelligence agents “cut off the path to rebellion, the inevitable result of which would be chaos.”
He reminded that uniformed officers “guaranteed the operation of the main command centers, strategic facilities, including defense facilities, the security of border areas and the rear of all units that continued to fight heroically at the front”.
He also mentioned the deaths of several pilots during the uprising, pointing out that “their hands did not tremble and they honorably carried out their orders and their military duty”, which is why he called for a minute’s silence to honor the dead. “Your determination and courage, together with the consolidation of the entire Russian society, played a huge and final role in stabilizing the situation. The people who participated in the rebellion saw that the army and the people were not on their side,” he added.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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