thanking them for preventing a civil warfrom breaking out. in a speech, mr putin insisted his rule was not weakened during saturday s rebellion by the wagner mercenaries. he suggested russia s regular military showed restraint by not being drawn into any fighting. our moscow editor steve rosenberg reports. vladimir, vladimirovich putin. at the kremlin, it was pomp with a purpose. ..to remind russians he is still in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin 2,500 soldiers and guards, and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived the rebellion, it was time to say thank you. translation: you defended the constitutional order, - the lives, security and the freedom of our citizens. you have saved our motherland from upheaval. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion after the kremlin did a deal with them
threat and 23 years when prigozhin took 10,000 armed troops and marched to moscow. now, putin couldn t get a hold of prigozhin and lukashenko was able to get a hold of them and convince them, according to lukashenko s account to move to minsk, not a plausible explanation but look, idea is that prigozhin is now in minsk in the coup d etat was over and lukashenko is in the catbird seat and lukashenko is in the catbird seatand vladimir lukashenko is in the catbird seat and vladimir putin is weak and mopping things up. fine and mopping things up. one thing that and mopping things up. one thing that we ve and mopping things up. one thing that we ve already heard from a lot of neighbouring countries is that this may destabilise the continent. is that a bit too extreme for other real concerns about that? too extreme. the baltic states a single holy cow, we do not want prigozhin anywhere near us. itjust totally want prigozhin anywhere near us. it just totally fair but