The chief of the rebel Wagner mercenary force will leave Russia and won’t face charges after calling off his troops’ advance on Saturday, Moscow said, easing Russia’s most serious security crisis in decades.
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Troops also won’t face punishment for the uprising, the Kremlin added this evening.
The United States and its allies held close consultations but publicly stayed on the sidelines Saturday as officials waited to see how the armed revolt by longtime Kremlin insider Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private Wagner army would play out.
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‘The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself.’
‘This is a criminal adventuristic campaign. It is equivalent to armed mutiny.’
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‘He had a sense that this was not okay and he was not very comfortable about doing it.’
