Russian president makes address at Kremlin as jet linked to Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin flies to Belarus
Vladimir Putin has appeared outside at the Kremlin to tell members of Russia’s security services that they “essentially prevented a civil war” during Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed mutiny, as a jet linked to the Wagner leader flew to Belarus from Russia.
“The people and the army were not on the side of the mutineers,” the Russian president told the assembled heads of Russia’s main domestic security services and the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, whom Prigozhin had sought to oust with his uprising, in the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square.
