In the first White House statement on the rebellion, the US diplomatic chief says challenging Putin’s authority has been “very powerful,” but that it’s too early to speculate about the repercussions for Ukraine.” on Sunday (25/06) the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken.
“[O motim] directly challenged Putin’s authority. So this raises deep questions and reveals real cracks” at the highest level of the Russian state, the US secretary of state told CBS TV channel.
The United States, which has held intense consultations with its European allies over the crisis in Russia over the past 24 hours, has so far refused to comment directly on the rebellion. Blinken himself discussed the situation in Russia on Saturday with his counterparts in the G7 countries, as well as with Poland and Turkey.
“Distracting Russia’s attention (…) creates an additional advantage” for Ukraine, while the Ukrainian counter-offensive continues, said the US secretary of state. However, he considers it rash to speculate about the impact of the mutiny in Russia or the war in Ukraine. “It’s too early to know how it will end. It’s an evolving situation,” he stressed.
He added that the fact that there is someone within Russia’s power structure directly questioning Putin’s authority “is a very powerful thing.” “They had to defend Moscow from the mercenaries that they themselves created,” he said, noting what he sees as the Russian president’s “strategic failure” in Ukraine.
“Prigozhin himself, during this incident, raised profound questions about the very premises of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, stating that Ukraine or NATO posed no threat to Russia, which is part of Putin’s narrative “, he has declared. .
Revolt followed by amnesty
The head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, suspended a mutiny in Russia against the country’s military command on Saturday night, less than 24 hours after occupying a headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, tasked with coordinate the activities of the invasion of Ukraine, and the dispatch of a convoy of men and military equipment towards Moscow, with the stated purpose of deposing the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff of Russia.
On Saturday morning, Putin said the uprising was a “mortal threat” to the Russian state and a betrayal, assuring he would not allow a “civil war” to break out.
The Russian leader managed to stop the armed uprising when the rebel convoy was 400 kilometers from Moscow, according to the New York Times, or 200 kilometers, according to Prigozhin.
A deal gave the mercenary leader a guarantee that neither he nor his men would be punished for the bombing, and refuge in Prigozhin in Belarus. On Sunday morning, the retreat of the Wagner Group fighters was confirmed.
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Source: Terra
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