{"id":270366,"date":"2023-06-25T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270366"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:04:07","slug":"wagner-agrees-to-end-insurrection-lukashenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270366","title":{"rendered":"Wagner agrees to end \u2018insurrection\u2019 \u2013 Lukashenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 June 24, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Saturday that he had arranged a deal whereby Wagner Group leader Evgeny Prigozhin will abandon his mutiny in exchange for <em>\u201csecurity guarantees\u201d<\/em> for his fighters.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEvgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of President Alexander Lukashenko to stop the movement of armed men of Wagner in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate tension,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0read a statement from Lukashenko&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Lukashenko and Prigozhin held talks for the <em>\u201cwhole day,\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201ccame to an agreement on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloodbath on the territory of Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lukashenko\u2019s office said that the talks were held in coordination with Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that Prigozhin was offered <em>\u201can advantageous and acceptable option of resolving the situation, with security guarantees for the Wagner PMC fighters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The news came as a Wagner convoy drew closer to Moscow, several hours after members of the private military outfit passed through the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. In a series of video statements released since Friday, Prigozhin declared that he was advancing on Moscow to confront Russian military officials he deemed corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin garnered no support from the Russian establishment. Instead, Putin accused the Wagner chief of <em>\u201cbackstabbing our country and our people,\u201d<\/em> while Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal investigation into Prigozhin for <em>\u201ccalling for an armed rebellion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senior Russian political and military figures denounced Prigozhin\u2019s mutiny, and called on Wagner fighters to lay down their arms.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Lukashenko&#8217;s announcement, Prigozhin confirmed that his troops were abandoning their push to Moscow and returning to their field camps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/578632-wagner-agrees-to-end-insurrection\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner boss confirms cancellation of advance on Moscow. Convoy of private military contractors returning to field camps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270367,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270366\/revisions\/270367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}