A business jet, belonging to Yevgueni Prigojine, landed this Tuesday morning at 7:40 a.m. (5:40 GMT) at the Machulischy air base, after taking off from Rostov-on-Don, according to FlightRadar24, a site specializing in monitoring. of flights. The militia leader was to go into exile in Belarus, after leading a mutiny against the Russian military command on Friday evening. He had launched his tanks and his mercenaries in a mad cavalcade that took them 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Vladimir Putin, after having threatened Evgueni Prigojine, finally dropped all criminal charges in exchange for the end of the raid and the contracting of the mercenaries with the Ministry of Defence. Wagner's leader firmly rejected this, arguing that his men had done better than the regular army, especially in Bakhmout. There are many rumors about what Prigojine could do in Belarus: Praetorian Guard for Alexander Lukashenko, invasion to kyiv...
The mercenaries involved in the rebellion should also, according to the Kremlin's announcements, benefit from the dropping of the charges against them, but will have to sign a contract with the Russian army. “Preparations are underway for the transfer of heavy military equipment from Wagner to active units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.