Uprising without heroes
Lukashenko: “Global war closer than ever”
06/27/2023, 12:21 p.m
After mediation by the Belarusian President Lukashenko, the uprising of the Wagner mercenaries ended after around 24 hours. From the point of view of those in power, the situation remains precarious.
During the Wagner mercenary uprising in Russia at the weekend, Alexander Lukashenko becomes the mediator between the Kremlin and Wagner boss Yewegni Prigozhin. The Belarusian ruler is now commenting on the events and claims that the West is threatening his country. He says a new global war has “never been as close as it is today”. “If Russia collapses, we will remain under the rubble, we will all perish,” said Lukashenko.
According to Lukashenko, the Belarusian army was put on combat readiness during the Wagner Uprising. “I gave all the orders to bring the army into full combat readiness,” he said. Tensions between the mercenary force and the Russian army were badly managed. “The situation slipped away from us and we thought it would resolve itself, but it didn’t,” said Lukashenko. “There are no heroes in this case.”
Mercenaries should go unpunished
The longtime ruler in Belarus acted as mediator between the Kremlin and Wagner boss Prigozhin on Saturday, who finally announced the end of the revolt. The month-long power struggle between the head of the mercenary force and the Russian military leadership escalated on Friday evening. Wagner fighters invaded Russia from Ukraine – Prigozhin said the goal was to overthrow the military leadership in Moscow. In Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, the troops took over the headquarters of the Russian army there.
After about 24 hours of uprising, he surprisingly took a turn on Saturday evening and ordered his mercenaries back to their camps. According to the Kremlin, he and his mercenaries should go unpunished and Prigozhin go into exile in Belarus.