A screenshot from the video
In the evening of June 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an address to citizens of Russia commenting on the situation with the ended rebellion attempt of Yevgeny Prigozhin and loyal to him units of PMC Wagner.
DETAILS THE SITUATION CAN BE FOUND HERE: LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK
Putin thanked the citizens of Russia for restraint, cohesion and patriotism.
“This civic solidarity shows that any blackmail, any attempt to stage domestic turmoil is doomed to fail,” he said. “The main thing – responsibility for the destiny of the Fatherland – has united everyone, brought our people together.”
“An armed mutiny would have been suppressed in any event. Mutiny plotters, despite the loss of adequacy, were bound to realise that. They understood everything, including the fact that their actions were criminal in nature, aimed at polarising people and weakening the country, which is currently countering an enormous external threat and unprecedented pressure from the outside. They did this at a time when our comrades are dying on the frontline with the words “Not a step back!”
The Preisident also thanked Wagner members who “stopped at the last line” and did not allow the “fratricidal bloodshed” to take place. The President noted that now Wagner members have a choice.
“You have the opportunity to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry and other law enforcement agencies or return to your family and friends. Anyone, who wants to, can go to Belarus,” Putin said.
The full text of the President’s address to citizens of Russia:
Friends,
Today, I am addressing the citizens of Russia once again. Thank you for your restraint, cohesion and patriotism. This civic solidarity shows that any blackmail, any attempt to stage domestic turmoil is doomed to fail.
I will repeat – society and the executive and legislative branches of government at all levels displayed high consolidation. Public organisations, religious denominations, the leading political parties and actually all of Russian society held a firm line, taking an explicit position of supporting constitutional order. The main thing – responsibility for the destiny of the Fatherland – has united everyone, brought our people together.
I will emphasise that all necessary decisions to neutralise the emerged threat and protect the constitutional system, the life and security of our citizens were made instantly, from the very beginning of the events.
An armed mutiny would have been suppressed in any event. Mutiny plotters, despite the loss of adequacy, were bound to realise that. They understood everything, including the fact that their actions were criminal in nature, aimed at polarising people and weakening the country, which is currently countering an enormous external threat and unprecedented pressure from the outside. They did this at a time when our comrades are dying on the frontline with the words “Not a step back!”
However, having betrayed their country and their people, the leaders of this mutiny also betrayed those whom they drew into their crime. They lied to them, pushed them to their death, putting them under attack, forcing them to shoot their people.
It was exactly this outcome, fratricide, that the enemies of Russia – the neo-Nazis in Kiev, their Western patrons and other national traitors – wanted to see. They wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other; they wanted the military and civilians to die; they wanted Russia to lose eventually, and our society to break up and perish in a bloody feud.
They were rubbing their hands together and dreaming of revenge for their failures at the frontline and in the course of the so-called counteroffensive, but they miscalculated.
I want to thank all our servicemen, law enforcement and special services officers who stood in the mutineers’ way, remaining faithful to their duty, their oath and their people. Courage and self-sacrifice of the fallen hero pilots have saved Russia from tragic and devastating consequences.
At the same time, we knew before and know now that the majority of Wagner Group soldiers and commanders are also Russian patriots, loyal to their people and their state. Their courage on the battlefield when liberating Donbass and Novorossiya proves this. An attempt was made to use them without their knowledge against their comrades-in-arms with whom they were fighting shoulder to shoulder for their country and its future.
That is why, as soon as these events started to unfold, in keeping with my direct instructions, steps were taken to avoid spilling blood. It required time, among other things, as those who made a mistake had to be given a chance to change their minds, to realise that their actions would be strongly rejected by society, to understand what tragic and devastating consequences for Russia, for our country the reckless attempt they had been drawn into, was leading to.
I express my gratitude to those Wagner Group soldiers and commanders who had taken the right decision, the only one possible – they chose not to engage in fratricidal bloodshed and stopped before reaching the point of no return.
Today, you have the opportunity to continue your service to Russia by signing a contract with the Defence Ministry or other law enforcement or security agency or return home. Those who want to are free to go to Belarus. I will keep my promise. Again, everyone is free to decide on their own, but I believe their choice will be that of Russian soldiers who realise they have made a tragic mistake.
I am grateful to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for his efforts and contribution to the peaceful settlement of the situation.
I would like to repeat that the patriotic sentiments of our people and the consolidation of Russian society played a decisive role during these days. This support has allowed us to pull through the toughest challenges and trials for our Motherland together.
Thank you for this.
but how is it that russia has these type of ronin formations attached to military operations
it is i think cause during the yeltzin era the british and us “advisers” wrote the laws in a way to prevent any independence in foreign policy and monetary policy from the us. so the only way to do things those “advisers” prohibited is to tell the russians that the laws of russia are wrong and need to be changed. since putin does not want to admit that any law in russia is wrong, he has to use shady ways and connections to get to his goals.
are you projecting? back in the 90s, when the oligarchs running russia, who are now running ukraine, were in charge, that was the case. the us wrote the laws and taxes on the back of the friendship agreement that they used for 3rd world nations. where russia got 20 cents to the $us for her energy. the us got the other 80 cents. it all changed in 2004, which is why russia was able to pay back the $45 billion, soviet union debt.
the shadiest of all his ways is that he never mentions that merkel, zelensky, zhirinovsky, duda, he himself, as well as prigozhin, blinken, i. cassis, a. ginzburg (sputik v), his friend rotenberg and his dear chabad lubavitch friends are all jews – while the sorry soldiers dying in the trenches onboth side of thefront are poor christians.he also doesnt explain why his daughters are not at the front s.o.
putins mother was russian orthodix and baptised putin as a baby. his dad was a communist.
“since putin does not want to admit that any law in russia is wrong, he has to use shady ways and connections to get to his goals”…
oh… you mean he’s a two-faced lying coward that does the bidding of his central banker and energy czars?… i keep hearing about the game of 4 dimensional chess he is playing with an ex-cook turned mercenary that murdered his own and was allowed to depart unfettered to neighbor belarus?!…
it has to be very confusing for the “hearts and minds” at home seeing all of this, especially the ones who are fighting and dying for their country.
i don’t think it took a chess champion 9 years to get involved in a struggle with family next store that has been torn apart through a civil war instigated by foreign entities that decimated one of the most important eastern european economies on russia’s borders that have witnessed 10s of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since maidan 2014….
someone the other day on this site asked if putin’s daughter had volunteered for military service to show their patriotism???…
mr. putin. “tear down this post-911 wall”!…
and now compare this speech to what you hear and see – on the “best day” – of the decrepit cadaver representing the us empire. not that he’s actually a leader, just the hand puppet of the us establishment.
soon, the usadmin is going to have to attach the strings to their puppet pres.
where have you lived? these are now in one country or another. in france, the foreign legion. the black water mercenary army used by the usa in iraq is the most wagner-like.
wagner have to be reasonably reputable and the russians would not support tem otherwise. blackwater and isis, there tends to be scant difference.
southfront is scared of red carpet knights at the kremlin? the russian army command is too slow in making decisions and also too old to have stomach for war.
flatten donald simons home town in canda i was thinking make a stamenet
integrity initiative bots and trolls out in force. how much is the uk tax payer being charged, these days?
too much, we are allowing e-bay to add taxes to everything now too.
did you hack that out all by yourself? your english is terrible, or you’re just lazy. maybe you are a ukrainian now living in blighty and working for troll central? that won’t last long.
again russia humiliates the inferior amereikan burger and donut colonies dumb mark germ land
former cia deputy director michael morell with cbs this morning’s norah o’donnell 46:42 i ai oo margot robbie anderosn got a farm
lol again ?they earn 10 times less an hour, is this serious? most public schools don’t have sewers or bathrooms and speeches that humiliated ?for a year and a half they haven’t been able to defeat a weak army and humiliated those who ?are you drunk in the morning?
you talking about the nato forces in ukraine?
clearly you’re some kind of nafomosexual or ukretard. when was the last time you were in the states? vast tent cities. the armed forces of the failed ukrainian cia project was enormous when the smo was launched, with eight years of us/nato training, advising, arming and supporting them with intelligence. same ol’ ukretard rubbish memes. ghost of kiev. trizub triple-dong dildo derp.
target reqwist for stikke — lanny mcdonald — gee simons margot anderosn anny trumph home town — do we accwired 3d maps on traget … control bomb detonation whip lash the blast ???
here is a box of tissues for the otan trannies
perhaps, the reason for what happened at the weekend was for russia to clean house. no mention of prigozhin, in the fsb statement, regarding dropping the investigation.
‘…”during the investigation of a criminal case… it is established that its participants on june 24 stopped actions directly aimed at committing a crime… ” the special service said…’
one way of clearing house and getting wagner forces closer to kiev and also close to belarus, when poland decides to kick start regime change there. in the meantime, one of the russian politicians is asking that the names of officials and oligarchs, who left russia, by private flights on 24 june, is made public. did it really cost the pentagon $6.2 billion, to get wagner into belarus?
let’s see. i guess lukachenko has welcome wagner pmc to get a combat proven troop which can help him to defend his independence if russia is trying to integrate his country by force. but let’s see if prigoshin will do this or tries to get president from belarus.
think you mean, lukashenko will have the wagner special unit up and running when poland decides to attempt the regime change script, they have planned. $6.2 billion to get the wagner guys into belarus and only 100 km from kiev. blinder and they even got to keep the money, that the us tax payer funded to help ukkraine.
or could this be an elaborate deception operation on russia’s part, playing up the roe between russia’s mod and wagner using the $6.2 billion provided by the “bonehead” biden’s administration.
are you a moron? i could point out all the mistakes with your post but i think i will let you embarrass yourself a little longer as it’s fun watching you crash and burn. troll central isn’t getting much out of you for the extortion of taxpayer’s.
pravdu sa nakoniec dozvieme, ale zrejme to potrvá ešte dlho. zatiaľ iba samé dohady!!! ak by to bola zrada v pravom slova zmysle tak prigožin by už dávno stál pred popravčou čatou!!! prebieha totižto švo a to v takomto prípade zákony platia inak. tak, že podľa môjho názoru tu šlo o divadlo, ktoré malo odhaliť vnútorného nepriateľa.
it did unite all of russia. they all finally realized that their russian president is a fucking idiot.
glory be to lenin who wiped out the royal family and any traces to england
amen ! amen !
quite the opposite happened in fact. the russian people love their president and won’t give him up. commiserations old chap. maybe it’s time you got a proper job?
any day now, putin will fall. any day now, russia will run out of missiles
an oligarch playing different roles… it’s clear what happened. sometimes he is a gastronomy company owner and sometimes a mercenary boss. when you first see the guy, you’d think he’s a military man, but he’s just a liar, like the rest of the ‘special’ people. why did he always have to appear in a vest and with martial language? because that was his role……
see it, read it, hear it, and weep, nato butthurt fanboys. your war is almost over. no more waste. no more pollution. no more death and destruction. no more western shysters telling the world what to do. the unipolar world is a fantasy.
bi polar fan boy, go back to sleep/ fantasyland. anyway noone wants to tell the world what to do, economic realities just rule, g7 is the force to be reconned, brands like airbus/ boeing, gm, vw, mercedes, toyota, hyundai, siemens, general elektrik, google, meta etc rule the markets, as much as u dream about it, shitty flathead russia cant compete or offer the world anything.
you’re not making much sense old chap. i think you need more training. so after your back has been shaved, go see your line manager.
young lad , tell me more about what russia has to offer the world? if unipolar world is over,there must be alternatives, not on paper/ fantasy, but in reality.
do russians use the nickname ‘mother russia’ or ‘fatherland’ when referring to their own country?
shitland is thecorrect offiziell term. given flatheads alkohol problems, russian flatheads dont know their fathers/ mothers to begin with..
anyway as much as i know, russia is concidered motherland, us germans have a vaterland instead.
interesting how lukashenko is prepared to take all of the wagner who do not wish to sign up with the russian military and who do not want to return home.