The troops halt their advance on Moscow and withdraw to their bases.
(Photo: REUTERS)
Riga The troops of the private Russian military company Wagner are just under 200 kilometers away from the Russian capital Moscow on Saturday evening when the sudden turnaround comes: The head of the Wagner troop, Yevgeny Prigoschin, surprisingly announces the withdrawal of the mercenaries and orders them back to their home Bases. He wanted to avoid bloodshed, Prigoschin justified the decision.
This seems to have averted the Wagner boss’s attempted putsch. During the night of Saturday, the mercenary force first took control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, not far from the border with Ukraine, where the headquarters of the Russian army for the south of the country is located.
From there, the Russian army largely coordinates the war of aggression against Ukraine. Then the mercenaries advanced through Voronezh to Lipetsk. In the meantime, Moscow had massively increased security precautions.
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