Russian president Vladimir Putin warned Russian rebels "any attempt to create internal turmoil is doomed to failure" as he thanked those who helped avoid "bloodshed" amid Wagner rebellion.
The head of the Wagner Group private army is not safe in Belarus, where he was allowed to retreat after his failed coup, a leader of the country's opposition has said.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has thanked commanders and soldiers of Wagner who "avoided bloodshed" on the streets of Moscow, formally labelling Saturday's events a "mutiny".
You only have to hear the words of Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian President and Vladimir Putin’s long term chief sidekick, to realise just how far Russia has propelled itself from the circle of civilised nations. Putin’s Russia not only uses state assassinations as an instrument of policy, but jokes and boasts about it too Dmitry