Alexandre Jaegy and Laura Laplaud with AFP / Photo credit: STRINGER / AFP
The Russian presidency and Yevgeny Prigojine agreed on Saturday to an agreement, after a day of spectacular armed rebellion by paramilitaries from the Wagner group, “to avoid a bloodbath”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the evening. . According to Patrick Martin-Genier, specialist in European issues, this mediation was “relatively easy”.
Yevgeny Prigojine, who led a spectacular rebellion in Russia, will leave the country for Belarus, while the criminal investigation against him will be dropped, the Kremlin announced on Saturday evening, which welcomed the agreement reached with the head of Wagner “to avoid a bloodbath”.
Kremlin spokesman hails Alexander Lukashenko’s role as mediator
After a full day of leading an armed insurrection, the businessman finally ordered his men who were marching towards Moscow to “turn around” and “go back to the camps”, following a mediation led by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Kremlin spokesman hailed the mediating role of Alexander Lukashenko in resolving the tensions that will have shaken Russian power as rarely for several years.
“What will Prigozhin do?”
According to Patrick Martin-Genier, a specialist in European issues, this mediation was “relatively easy” insofar as other people such as Kadyrov – at the head of the Chechen Republic under Russian administration – are very angry with Prigojine. “The difficulty today is that he has obviously gone too far. Vladimir Putin has declared war on him. The question is: will the Russian Minister of Defense stand or will Vladimir Putin is going to try a negotiation to reconcile with Prigozhin?” he wondered.
“And then, what is Prigozhin going to do? Will he come back to Ukraine? And what is the situation in Ukraine? Won’t that make this war in Ukraine even more difficult?” -he questioned at the microphone of Europe 1.
No prosecution against Wagner fighters
Yevgeny Prigojine “will go to Belarus”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced in the evening, swearing that the boss of Wagner “had the word of President” Vladimir Putin. “The criminal case will be dropped against him,” he also added, and “no one will persecute” the fighters who followed Yevgeny Prigojine in his company, “given their merits on the front” Ukrainian.