Putin Accuses West of Involving in Wagner Mutiny

On Monday evening, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin confirmed that the West wanted a civil war to break out in Russia, accusing the organizers of the "coup" of betraying the country and the people.

In an evening speech broadcast by various Russian news outlets, Putin called on the Wagner Group's fighters to join the army or leave for Belarus after their participation in the armed rebellion.

Last Saturday, Wagner's forces became only 200 km from the Russian capital, Moscow, before retreating under pressure led by the Kremlin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Although the Wagner leader confirmed in previous statements that his forces did not encounter any resistance on their way to Moscow, on the contrary, they were welcomed by the people, Putin responded to those statements by saying that Russian society showed deep unity in the face of the rebellion, and the position was proven by defending Constitution and order.

Since Wagner's troops entered Rostov, Russian citizens have expressed varying feelings about the presence of those forces that are participating in the war in Ukraine, and achieved a decisive victory in Bakhmut last May in their cities; some of them welcomed the troops, and many expressed their displeasure, and they stayed in their homes for fear of their lives.

Putin accused Western countries and Ukraine of standing behind that desperate attempt, saying that "brotherly bloodshed is what the Nazis in Kyiv wanted so that Russia would fail in its course."