Russia warned the West yesterday against taking advantage of an armed insurrection carried out by the Wagner mercenary group in Russia to achieve what Moscow said were their “anti-Russian” goals.
“We warn the Western countries against any hint of (the) possible use of the domestic Russian situation to achieve their Russophobic goals,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“All goals and objectives of the special military operation will be fulfilled,” it added, using the Kremlin- preferred term for Moscow’s large-scale military intervention in Ukraine.
The office of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said late yesterday that he had brokered a deal with mutinous Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Wagner chief – who had agreed
