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Yevgeny Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov
Units led by Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov suddenly withdrew late on June 24 from Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast, 79th Separate Airborne Brigade press officer Yaroslav Chepurnyi said on Ukrainian national television on June 25.
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“Last night, Chechen (leader Kadyrov’s) units, which fought against us in Maryinka, suddenly retreated and began to leave Maryinka,” Chepurnyi said.
Chepurnyi said aerial reconnaissance noticed the withdrawal and the enemy was engaged – a Russian armored personnel carrier was hit.
“The Akhmat-Vostok regiment, which was fighting here, and the special forces retreated and went somewhere in full force,” the officer added.
Earlier, a source close to the Russian General Staff claimed that the Russian army was gathering “all units not employed at the front”, including Kadyrov’s men, to “ensure the passage of (the leader of the Wagner mercenary company Yevgeny) Prigozhin to to block Moscow.”
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Kadyrov, the puppet leader of the Chechnya Kremlin, claimed that his military units had been sent to Rostov Oblast to “suppress the uprising” of Wagner’s militants.
Prigozhin announced his march on Moscow and the start of an armed conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defense on the evening of June 23, reportedly after the Russian army attacked the mercenaries’ “back camp”.
But on the evening of June 24 the leader of the mercenary company Wagner announced that he was “turning back the columns” which he said had not gotten closer than 200 kilometers to Moscow because his fighters allegedly did not want to ‘shed Russian blood’.
The press service of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko simultaneously claimed that Lukashenko had been negotiating with Prigozhin all day and that the Wagner warlord agreed to “stop movements through Russia’s territory”, and that his militants had been promised “guarantees of security” in yield.
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The Kremlin said that the case of Prigozhin’s armed uprising would be closed, the Wagner units would return to the “rear camps”, and Prigozhin himself would go to Belarus.
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