The president of the State Duma or lower house of the Russian Parliament, Viacheslav Volodin, affirmed today that many of the mercenaries of the Wagner Group, which rebelled last weekend, will continue to serve Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to the Wagnerites who want to defend Russia “to continue their service with arms in hand,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram account.
“As far as I know, many of them have accepted,” he added.
The legislator stressed that the rebellion carried out on June 23 and 24 by the Wagner Group led by its boss, Yevgueni Prigozhin, and which was dismantled through an agreement when the mercenaries were approaching Moscow “showed how high the prestige of the president is ( Putin) in civil society and among the military”
The head of the Kremlin, according to Volodin, “came out of this extremely difficult situation with his most strengthened positions, both in the country and in the world.”
“If people like Putin had been at the head of the state in 1917 and 1991, there would not have been a revolution or the disintegration of the Soviet Union,” the Duma leader concluded.
The Wagnerites put down their rebellion after the Russian president promised that the criminal case against them would be shelved, Prigozhin would go to Belarus and the mercenaries could return home or formally join the military.
Prigozhin’s declared objective, which he did not achieve, was the dismissal of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, whom he has for months been responsible for the military setbacks in Ukraine and the high number of casualties among the Russian forces.
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