Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow to avoid “shedding Russian blood” and agreed to live in exile in Belarus – ending one of the biggest challenges to President Vladimir Putin’s decades-long rule.
Prigozhin said while his men were just 200km (120 miles) from the Russian capital, he decided on Saturday to turn them back to prevent killings.
“They wanted to disband the Wagner military company. We embarked on a march of justice on June 23. Now, the moment has come when blood could be spilled,” said Prigozhin in an audio message.
“Understanding responsibility [for the chance] that Russian blood will be spilled on one side, we are turning our columns around and going back to field camps as planned.”
Moscow braced for the arrival of the private army led by the rebellious mercenary commander by erecting checkpoints with armoured vehicles and troops on its southern edge. Red Square was shut down and the mayor urged motorists to stay off some roads.
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports.
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He’ll get whacked sadly, they all do!
wagners life is over, i dont not think he will live to enjoy his pension
I do not believe for a second that Prigozhin really retreated. Now he is in Belarus, all charges against him and his men are immediately dropped 😉and Kiew is now in plain view from the Belarussian border. What if the whole “rebellion” story was a staged event to get Wagner mercenaries easily there whithout suspicion he followed orders from the Kremlin. It is so easy to mislead the public. They see what they want to see. Who knows what Lukashenko and Putin negotiated in the last couple of weeks? Now Putin and Lukashenko can wash their hands in innocence if Wagner mercenaries (maybe secretely reinforced by Belarussian troops?) “unexpectedly” cross the Ukrainian border to attack Kiew while Ukrainian troops are engaged in the counter offensive in the South-East. These men cannot be trusted at all.
Whatever happens to Prigozhin, i dunno and I dont care. But what i know is Russians are still occupying 20% of Ukraine. Putin is still in power.
fake story people, its just an operation to fish out putins enemies in the army and special services and nothing else. entire operation was designed for two reasons: first to shift the blame for a failing war in ukraine to shoigu and gerasimov and second one will be to show the world that there is only one leader in russia and his name is putin. Anything else is just a smoke screen for entertainment. Prigozhin from the beginning said he is coming for shoigu and gerasimov, not putin. calm your tities prigozhin is safe in belarus until he is useful for putin, maybe he will launch some ukraine campaigns from belarus and everyone will say this guy is a loose canon so dont blame lukoshenko or putin, but we will see whats next in some few months or weeks
Staged cash grab from foolish enemies?
Or false retreat to draw out forces?
So killing Ukrainians for Russia then turn on Russia and then kill Russians then say it’s all for Russia but then get kicked out of Russia wow what a joke!
I am glad he turned back. Many would have died for nothing.
Putin’s diaper is full, there was a money deal $$$ Prigozhin took the deal. That seems obvious. The challenge is coming to grips with the part where Prigozhin, having proven he can be bought (yet again), can expect to live long enough to enjoy the money.
Now that’s what you call a “cocktease”.
He will soon arrive in florida with the billion $ that he received and join the long list of guido, gulen, navalny etc..
Putin had granddaughter as a hostage
He chose the path of bravery, until he realized it was also the path of stupidity.
Prigoshin, u could have become the Hero of the decade with such little effort, but instead he turned around being a coward and betrayed his soldiers
Prigozhin just needed a reason to go to Belarus with his soldiers.
What is funny. Yesterday some Ukro and Belarus nazies were scaring Lukashenko about taking over Belarus.
After news about Wagner going to Belarus, these nazies never spoke a word since than. As well as NATO and Zelensky 😀
This guy is already a billionaire but now the problem is he can still be bought by the west while in exile. So now Mr. Putin needs to treat him kindly. Then later treat him even better with a very
” special treatment ” before it’s too late for his regime.
A dark day for Yelensky because Wegner called off the revolt.
F off with your BS PROPAGANDA, they fooled y’all idiots
Sorry to inform you good folks: Prigozhin’ is on borrowed time. I’ll give him 3 months? Betrayal is never rewarded.
The three stooges. Putin, Pergozhin, and Lukashenko are playing all of us. Wagner moving to Belarus to prepare for new fight with nato or a shorter route to Kiev
Wagner chief turn woke
Prighozin looks like an absolute buffoon and this just strengthens Putin’s image as a benign dictator. I hate to admit I was actually moved by Putin’s speech, his delivery and words were well chosen and seemed sincere, not the outcome anyone wanted. Prigozhin will soon be drinking polonium laced tea or meet with an unfortunate accident.
I hope priggo knows thst he is a poosy rat
Such a fraud, all talk no action…lol
putin created this frankensteine group and never thought of that one day they will wipe him out !!!
better dismantle this group , wipe out mercenaries and rely on your regular soldiers and even your own russian people !
after all these people fought against mighty nazis and drove them out , under stalin !
Wagners to Belarus!!
He got scared😂😂
He was tricked by CIA 😂
retreating to belarus? prigozhin is a dead man walking.
The Wagner group chicken out
The old art of propaganda has many tools in its tool box .Putin v prigozhin 🤣,this is a staged event and the tool being used from that Propaganda box in this case is,’Switch and Bait not Bait and Switch.First one has to get the Belarusian President to broker a deal between this 2 actors in doing so the Belarusian Presidents confidence and ego is on a high.Prigozhin and his private army are going to Belarus not back into Ukrainian territory .In Belarus they will join up with the nukes Putin has already placed there furthermore they will take over Belarus itself.I have a feeling the Belarusian Presidents ill health will soon claim his life .Let me put it another way the ,’Switch’,here is Prigozhin and the ,’Bait’, here is the Belarusian President. No need to explain the strategic value here of this cunning move.🧐
America’s fake news.
uprising? really? Putin is laughing now.
Wagner boss is about to fall out of a window 😂
Putin is known for his forgiveness 😂
Hahah , how fun it is to read . experts were talking about the end of Putin ‘s Russia .
hahah exile in belarus.. hes not guna last long!
This doesn’t make any sense. If Prigozhin was so upset about Russia killing his men, why would he agree to be exonerated (disappeared) and all of his men left to face the music? There is something else going on.
When you call mercinaries on gta
he did not agree to anything…his days are numbered
Idiots,,,thugs ,,,
It’s a ruse.Prigozin will be training his army for a northern attack.Things are going to get ugly.
RUSSIA NEVER keeps its agreements …
Just ask anyone in Ukraine….
You need to change order of the countries you have mentioned just replace Ukraine with maybe West or US or NATO… whatever you prefer.
Not like Putin to let something like this slide. Must be some sorta plan going on or something.
Prigozhin better stay on ground floor and not accept the lavish penthouse. He is likely to fall.
Ok, so now we know Wagner group is terrified of Chechen military. 👀💀💀💀
So why did Prigozhin do this wreckless march to Moscow? Well….because he is an ex-criminal, an ex-hotdog seller, an ex-caterer……because he is NOT a trained military stratergist, because he is not a real general……because what he wears is NOT a uniform, it’s a costume.
When chef acting like general or colonel the result is clown….
This is karma for Russia invading and killing innocent people, God doesn’t support bullies
Soon he will be getting fed a cocktail of vodka and polonium 210. RIP……you betrayed your master in putin. Now you will pay with 💀💀💀
What was that comedian saying?
Phew crisis averted! Back the de nazifying Ukrainian
Its only a show directed by Putin and co-director Prigozhin
If you shoot at the king you better not miss
What an L 😂
The fact alone that Russia uses private military forces (guns for hire/mercenaries) even to defend itself from internal threats shows a lot how corrupt, broken and irresponsible its entire government is. The government is basically managed and shared by dangerous mafias.
Even Chechens turn around 😂
It was all a scam, He scammed CIA and took billions for a fake coup. Worst Administration ever!
Imagine a militia marching towards Damascus what will the Syria army do?
Imagine a militia marching towards Washington, what would the American military do?
Imagine a militia would march towards Beijing what would the Chinese army do?
A militia marches towards Moscow “threatening” Putin and the power center and no units gathered from all around Russia to annihilate it?
It is rather a game to redeploy Wagner to the northern border of Ukraine.
Especially that all frontlines are stabil and in some areas Russian forces stage successful counteroffensives!
He left his troops wow what a looser
PIGOZIN is only Withdrawn from killing innocent russains because the wagner force Saw Something we don’t See… CHECHAN MILLITERY
there are a lot of high rise buildings in Belarus from where he can slip off
What a lousy leader
Wagner should have tried to join Ukraine, atleast Wagner boss has a chance of living.
𝗜𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵?
Peace between Israel and any other nation depends on the Jewish people being at peace with each other.
In the past, Israeli Jews were once united in times of war. Today, even war fails to unite us.
There is no need for us to fight anyone. We will finish ourselves off with our own hands.
Until we understand that everything depends on uniting above our divisions and discovering a common love, we will have no peace and calm with our neighbors.
How does it work?
It works because we are a special nation that was established not on biological ties, but on achieving the idea of “love your friend as yourself,” and it is that example of unity that will let us function as a healthy organ in the world.
If we achieve such love for each other, then Palestinians will have no drive to fight us, and in general, the hatred against us will subside.
If we wish to be at peace with Palestinians and the entire world, we first need to be at peace with each other.
It turn out as a laughing stock, and a hoax hahaha just like child’s game
They organized the fake coup So all the snakes 🐍 could put their head out. So they can cut them off. 😂
Now Putin got a good view of what’s going on in the country.
In the next few days we will start to se Millionaire and billionaires started to move out of the country.
Some will go to Jail etc….
It’s all a scenario to get the haters. 😂
Putin created Prigozhin, the FSB created Wagner. So a coup against president Putin is a deadly ☠️ mission. A suicide mission
The Funniest thing is when they send Prigozhin to Belarus 🇧🇾 😂. Who control Belarus 🇧🇾 😂, a Putin puppet. 😂 Lukachenco
They didn’t put him in jail, neither kill him.
At least his tanks had fuel and extra drums of fuel on the trailer if you look closely. Somebody maybe “sam “is giving Wagner weapons fuel food . Also for the people with goldfish memory’s putin sent tactical nukes to Belarus.
I wonder how much “the west” funneled to Wagner to pull this off???
It is quite possible or believable that the Minister of Defense and corrupt generals did order fire upon Wagner units and Prigozhin reacted in a way that made Putin incapable of keeping Wagner in Russia. That said, Prigozhin had joined the corrupt elite really, but he had lost too much in this war and ended-up hating the top brass.
Is There Absolutely No Jazeera But The Belarus Support For Bereke Bank ?
Deswegen findet der Wagner die Schwarz noch oft in Russland beim Kinder vergewaltigen zusammen mit ihrer Britta
I think it’s staged and now he is in Belarus so maybe he could launch an attack on Ukraine from Belarus. Putin already tricked America last election so he could trick in different ways 😅😅😅😅
Heee😂😂CIA USA NATO play book tricks of “divide and conquer” failed fast than baking pan cakes..🤣😂😂Western War Mongers are disappointed with their sponsored failed coup attemp…😂😂😂 CIA and NATO hoped for the worst in Russia but Russians are more united than ever🤣🤣😂heee your money eaten for free.Russians love Putin and actually most of the world love and respect Putin and wish Putin to remain in power…anyway Wegner chief is smart as he realized that he will for sure perish if he didn’t accept humble pie from Putin🤣🤣 USA planted a rotten apple among the Russian military but God has other good plans for Russia.. and Wegner Boss his journey is over… Russia is greater than the west think and Wegner chief knows better than to make enemies with Putin that’s why he turned and abandoned the coup..😂🤣🤣..The USA and NATO miscalculated allot of things on Russia; Russia is not like Serbia, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan or some third world poor country etc . Uraaa Uraaaa
That’s not a leader, that’s a coward. He’s running away.
Prigozhin will be drunk. He will fall off his balcony.
This is all part of putins plan
Oh god, please, please, please I beg you to show your wisdom to Ukraine people and make them be vigilant about Prigozhin and Wagner mercenary group to attack Kyiv from Belarus. This is a trick, a deadly trick planned by Putin, Prigozhin, and Lukashenko.
USA is the only devil behind all the turmoil and problems in the world. USA is the only reason behind the unrest of peaceful people. The United States is behind the destruction of underdeveloped countries while they prosper. Because they don’t allow anyone to climb up.
Russian Military leaders were attacking his men in Ukraine anyway and getting them killed.. So looks like he had limited choices.
He wasn’t exhiled. This was orchestrated so he could be allowed to go to Belarus without public outrage/resistance, so Wagner group can have easy access point to sack Kyiv.
PUTIN 👍👍👍👍👍
Russia 🇷🇺 ❤
Prigozhin is smart he knows the consequences…that can happen if he goes against Putin… Unfortunately zelensky doesn’t… I am not saying Ukraine to surrender.. but before going for battle we should estimate our strength and weakness and opponents strength and weakness and decision should be taken… For me Ukraine should have chosen dialogue rather than war..
“exile to Belarus” sure buddy
Wahner must be with putin always,and dont on belive on any promise by anyone,gud 4 both
Hitler 2 million army could not take over Moscow why people thing 25 thousand merceneries can do that
Guys, it’s not what it appears to be. There was no riot, just the SMO continuation
Exile means his death will be delayed.
This is highly strategic of Russia. Stage a coup to allow Wagner leader to be “exiled” to Belarus where nuclear weapons were moved to and now the Wagner leader can lead the taking over of Kiev from Belarus.
We in the west are so dumb to believe this was actually a coup. Ukrainians should be worried about what’s coming next.
Prigozhin better runs to Poland and begs for life in prison to not experience a violent death from Russian special police.
“good news first, the world’s in great shape.”
“We got civil war in Russia, government loyalist against ultranationalist rebels , and 15,000 nukes at stake”
“And the bad news ??”
“We got new guy join us today , fresh out of selection, his name SOAPP.”
Since when did the entire world know what only the intelligence community should know? None of us should know any of this. Which means they want us to know. Which also means it’s probably a bunch of BS.
Ukraine need to get on high alerts Wagner will probably attack kyiv from Belarus.
Putin let him know his, wife, children and grandchildren will be tortured physically and mentally before they are executed. Anybody who he has any love for….gone. He will still be tortured and executed but this way his family is spared.
Could be an L ambush. Wagner and Russian army have had friendly fire incidents. If Wagner attacks from Belarus North to South Russian army attacks From Russia East to West friendly fire eliminated and panic Ukrainian forces in a surprise attack., Something to prepare for. Something about this isn’t right.SETUP…?
Or maybe it was all a ruse for wagner to get transfered to Belarus moving closer to Europe/Kiev without NATO getting suspicious…
Social media followers ≠ organic support.
Well done Putin 🖐.
Al jazeera how about reporting about peoples strikes ,hunger etc in Europe, the US… how about migrants in Qatar…it would be nice to hear that as well. You can misinterprete and misinform as you do when reporting about Russia and China.
He made Putin look stupid.