Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it is dropping a criminal case against Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group related to the mercenary’s attempted rebellion in the country over the weekend, according to local media reports.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti says the case was dropped because “the participants had ceased actions directly aimed at committing the crime”.
Russia’s defence ministry says the Wagner Group is preparing to hand over all its equipment after attempting to launch a revolt in the country over the weekend.
Journalist Yulia Shapovalova joins us live from Moscow to discuss the latest updates.
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I’m Hearing Different Things about This …Putins VOWS REVENGE….Then this comes out…With 20 minutes of the other one…lol
FSB: “Relax comrade, there will be no charges against you. We also provided a luxury 20th floor condo for you in Belarus. All’s forgotten.”
They are definitely going to lure him into false sense of security and strike when he least expects it 😀
Wagner invading Belarus now.
Russia being Russia, dropping charges is one thing, dropping a wee bit of Novichok into Priggy’s drink is another thing.
stop jacking yourself off. Wagner is still active, so let’s see what happens. You seem real happy on the fantasies. You some kinda wannabe FSB fuckboy or what? Because no real Russian intelligence agent would be wasting their time here on Youtube pretending to know what’s going on
Is your army 1/72nd scale?
Yup. And the north koreans blew up the gas pipeline.
Lol who’s the Nazi’s now?
Plenty of BS and propaganda
Do you feel yourself fooled? 😁
Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Run amuck! 😆
He ain’t gonna tell you monsters where he is, you are mad for being stung…
Am I being silly or has nobody yet realised that this coup just COULD BE A COMPLETE RUSE SETUP BY PUTIN & PRIGOZHIN WAGNER GROUP??? Everybody is talking coup but it could just be a diversion of what could happen???
Why you may ask? Because the Wagner group have begun heading NORTH and this means that they could be preparing to attack the weaker Northern Ukrainian army frontage near Belarus and will then try to surround Kiev which could be a deadly blow for Ukraine…
Russians are genetically incapable of doing anything that makes sense. I enjoy watching them pretend to be humans.
Teflon Ivan
It’s only been a few days, and it looks like they are sorting out how they want to handle a failed coup. Meanwhile in the US, it’s been 2 years and Trump hasn’t been dealt with for his failed coup.
Everyone just wants Russia to punish everyone in the harshest way possible cause it’ll help in the Ukraine war. Which is just wishful thinking. If you want Ukraine to win, then actions need to be taken to help them win, not wishful thinking.
Now we wait for Russia to blaim Wagner for any wrong doing Russia has done 😂
Rape, torture, molesting kids noooo, it was al wagner.
How often do you change your news ?
I take a good news story 2, maybe 3 times a day…
Amazing how people were cheering for Prigozhin and how they are unhappy he didn’t continue ! Says tons how Putin is hated !
You’ve got it all mixed up.
china will hire the wagner group to invade taiwan
Julija, you can’t be trusted anymore, your worked with *RT* you behaved like a good girl. And now all of sudden working for Al Jazeera you calling a free elected President Lukasenko’s government “A Regime President. You can’t be trusted! That’s for sure.
Fake coup… Putin was weeding out nonsupporters…
They had to ..their regular army is crumbling ..
No one cares 😂
Hahaha Wagner took the Wests money….😂 That’s gangster
Putin only promised that criminal cases are dropped, not that prigozhin has no “strange accidents” or “feeling unwell after drinking tea”
Putin is scared for his life.
Putler is a gangster he’ll kill you. Just like any politicians, they are hypocrites. They say one thing but act differently from what they say. Traitors are always killed esp at wartime.
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15 years for saying the word “war”
0 years for armed mutiny
That’s a country with a proper justice system 😂😂
That would have triggered a civil war.
Stay focus your Enemy is USNATO
How forgiving is Putin no charges for insurrection, also a luxury penthouse with plenty of window is provided 😂😂.
00;32 the russian president !😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Russian who can’t fight are worthless to the regime. U have no human rights in Russia. Get used to it
Confuse thy adversaries and feed them false hope, while advancing your objectives?
Well who didn’t see that coming 🤷♂️ lol
Wagner is ready in Belarus near kive !
They won’t be prosecuted ,they will just fall out of windows ,be found dead or disappeared .
lol, sucks for those pilots they shot down
Well their family will be compensated. In Millions by Prighozin
all u idiot favor putin crazy no care for human life and soldiers of russia
Yevgeny Prigozhin is the Anti-Hero who everyone was cheering 📣 for! Too bad he wasn’t successful!
Why Wagner Chief Prigozhin Turned Against Putin – The Wall Street Journal
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By early June, Wagner and Russia’s regular army were behaving as if they were enemy forces.
Prigozhin said his fighters’ escape routes from Bakhmut were mined by Ministry of Defense troops. When Wagner came to clear the path, they were fired upon by the military, according to Prigozhin. Russian military officials said that wasn’t true.
In retaliation, on June 5, Wagner arrested and filmed a Russian army lieutenant colonel who said he had ordered his troops to shoot at its mercenaries. It was “due to personal hostility,” said the detained officer, his nose bloodied.
As Wagner chief, Prigozhin was crucial to Putin’s efforts to extend Russia’s global interests. Wagner helped pro-Russian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine after the 2014 annexation of Crimea and helped secure territory for the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a Putin ally. In 2018, as Wagner forces advanced toward positions held by U.S. soldiers near Deir Ezzour, American commanders asked the Russian defense ministry to identify the soldiers. The defense ministry responded that it didn’t know. When U.S. troops opened fire, killing more than 100 mercenaries, Prigozhin blamed Shoigu, igniting their feud.
All of you people are Proghozhin and I’m Putin. Soon you will drink bitter tea and never wake up again.
Putin computer in itself 😊
That makes Putin look super Strong… 🤣🤣🫣
Commentaries are ex CIA, well done aljazeera. Fake news
Yeah they dropped charges but he still hasn’t been seen on here I wonder why 🤔🪦⚰️
Prez Putin kept his promise 🎉
Prigozhin in Belarus is more dangerous for Ukraine than his stationing in Russia, Mark my words
Wagner has not been a game changer yet after 16 months.
I don’t think they will turn into super soldiers in Belarus .
@John Smith No Boss, Ukraine needs to fight two fronts very soon
@Shiva Kumar Its been 16 months .
If Russia had a trick it would have used it by now .
Russia can’t even get Kherson back and Putin declared that a Russian city a year ago .
@John SmithRespected your views, Dear
Going after the former head of the KGB isn’t a smart move..😂
I did not see any Wagner people arrested by Putin.
prigozhin will someday drink the magic drink of putin or he will kill himself as report by the Russian authorities.
I’m sure the funds to Wagner would dry up
It’s all a prearranged smoke and mirrors show
does this anchorwoman have an ONLYFANS???
Never know what vatniks can do to one another
If he is smart, he aint going to Belarus
Russia now just a paper tiger, quite sad
Diciamo che ormai è una succursale cinese, che serve a tutti i cosiddetti alleati, a mantenere in casa loro uno status dittatoriale simile alla Russia. Ricordiamo che in tutti gli stati che mantengono strette relazioni e danno la loro solidarietà in questo momento al piccoletto, vige una dittatura stretta e feroce: se in Russia cambiano le cose, molti cominceranno ad avere paura: la libertà e la democrazia sono cose molto brutte per le ristrette cerchie di arricchiti.
This ensures the loyalty of the Wagner fighters. 👍
Not likely as Wagner survivors hate Putin for trying to kill them off.
Sure, this is Russian ploy to capture the Wagner fighters and send them back to jail.
It doesn’t matter the damage is done. In Russian culture you can’t run away, in your private jet.
So Russian opposition journalists wants to compared themselves to the Wagners who sacrificed thousands in Ukraine to protect Russia?
Putin had to let them them go .
How was Putin going to arrest a army that was on its way to Moscow to remove him?
1:52 someone was trying to drift the tank.
Part of play
They are more startled how people welcomed Wagner against leaders of russia
Prigozhin blinked and he now has a sixth floor window with his name on it.
Putin will be brutal with his reprisals but will do it slowly after he can split up and isolate the Wagner personnel.
A missed opportunity.
I think Putin traded Belarus to Wagner for Moscow .
Now Prigozhin has a army and his own country .
Let me guess. Putin is weak, his government is weak. He’s days in power are numbered, Putin is finished and has no power in Russia. That’s all you get from MSM concerning this rebellion
I think Putin traded Belarus to Wagner for Moscow .
Now Prigozhin has a army and his own country .
How dense are you 😂. Prigozhin bout to take over Belarus, a one man army
No surprise. Planned head of group returns to South Africa to steal resources, shipping to Moscow via Saudi Arabia, and the few left alive in the Wagner Group forced to join the Russian Army…who tried to kill them off.
I don’t think it is going to go good with the population and the miliary. Killing 20 to 30 highly trained pilots. Comrades dead. These guys get of Scot free. It just shows the corruption in the Gov. and the elites. Yes Civil war is coming.
If he “accidentally” falls out of the window……Its because he tripped up ok
drop your defense so we can put back the charges
“Vladimir Putin, has said that the Wagner mercenary group was “fully funded” by the Russian state.” This public admission is basically an assertion of ownership to its wealth and assets abroad.
Where do you think Blackwater get their funds?
@Charles Scott Except the US government never denied funding and being legally responsible for BW. Or are you stupidly claiming Putin funds them, which is the literal reading of your stupid comparison.
Russia leaders is an embarrassment as to represent their own country!
You never let traitors off the hook
Glory to the Russian warriors who fell for the Motherland,
Who fought with courage, sparing not their blood.
Glory to the Russian heroes who left a mark in history,
Who defended freedom, not afraid of death and pain.
Who their killer got away Scot free. Thanks to the commander and chief.
Substitute Russia for Germany and you sound exactly like Adolf Hitler. 😂You might need to work towards the denazification of the Kremlin.
This whole thing was a ruse
No one dropped anything..this was all staged to get Wagner troops into Belarus to attack Kyiv.
Senario 1: Wagner may attack Kyiv from Belarus to redeem themselves but Putler and any war lord had traitors killed first based on history; Scenario 2: Lukashenko is just deceiving the waner group he may deliver them to Putler and had them killed in Belarus, Scenario 3: Wagner will be left alone but it very unlikely. Putler one way or another will kill them or harm their family: ll; scenario 4: The Kremlim will trigger the wagner group to attack by harming their family making them believe they are absolved from their betrayal. bottomline is Wagner may be planning to retaliate soon by being prudent because they have no way out of this except death and unless they removed Putler and the evil soviets
Lukashenko is terminal ill and want Wagner leader to succeed him as a Belarusian president
Belarus was just effectively gifted to wagner with a bunch of nukes…mafia state at its best…
This was a chase game Putin and lukashenko they want him to succeed in Belarus
A country run by thugs
In Russia, the FSB investigates crimes? So they recognise some kind of laws?
Once Wagner hand over all their heavy weaponry, Putin’s amnesty won’t be worth very much at all.
This reporter is a liar
In a completely unrelated story, Prigozhin was later found to have committed suicide. With two bullets to the back of the head.
The whole rebellion was a drama, made by putin. 😁😁
Polonium cake will be served to him. He is a dead man! If he dosent get to Putin first, they both know this and both powerfull enought to do eachother in.
Does AlJazeera even have journalists of their own😒