{"id":1956197,"date":"2023-06-24T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-says-we-are-turning-back-after-lukashenko-plays-mediator\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T14:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:17:53","slug":"russia-coup-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-says-we-are-turning-back-after-lukashenko-plays-mediator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-says-we-are-turning-back-after-lukashenko-plays-mediator\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian coup leader Prigozhin: &#8220;We&#8217;re retreating&#8221; as Lukashenko mediates."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-coup-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-says-we-are-turning-back-after-lukashenko-plays-mediator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian Mercenary Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin Halts Apparent Mutiny<\/h2>\n<p>Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has announced a halt to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-says-we-are-turning-back-after-lukashenko-plays-mediator\/\" title=\"Russian coup leader Prigozhin: \"We're retreating\" as Lukashenko mediates.\">apparent mutiny<\/a>, following talks brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko&#8217;s regime between the warlord and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters,&#8221; Prigozhin announced on social media. &#8220;Now, the moment has come when blood may spill. That&#8217;s why, understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Dramatic Challenge to Putin&#8217;s Authority<\/h3>\n<p>This statement marks an abrupt end to a frenzy that presented Putin with the most dramatic challenge to his authority since he rose to power in 1999. Just one day after declaring a &#8220;march for justice&#8221; to seek revenge on Russian defense officials and protect the Wagner Group forces, Prigozhin suggested that the uproar was an attempt to preserve his organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They were going to dismantle PMC Wagner,&#8221; Prigozhin revealed. &#8220;In a day, we walked nearly 200km away from Moscow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This announcement could once again shroud the mysterious struggle that organizes the various power centers in Putin&#8217;s Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much will depend on the next 24 hours and whether [Prigozhin] has gathered enough support not to be crushed quickly,&#8221; a senior European official told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;I think that everyone understands that Putin has made a catastrophic mistake with the war in Ukraine. What to do now for the best is not obvious. There are many groupings with specific interests. The question is how they will deal with each other without weakening their positions relative to the outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<h3>Lukashenko Takes Credit for the Breakthrough<\/h3>\n<p>Lukashenko, a Putin client, claimed credit for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-president-macron-says-hes-ready-to-work-with-russia-on-security\/\" title=\"French President Macron says he\u2019s ready to work with Russia on security\">apparent breakthrough<\/a>, as the Belarusian regime announced that he had spoken to Putin and Prigozhin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Negotiations continued throughout the day. As a result, they came to agreements on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia,&#8221; Lukashenko&#8217;s press service announced. &#8220;Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted President Alexander Lukashenko&#8217;s proposal to stop the movement of Wagner&#8217;s armed men in Russia and to take further steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-response-to-putin-debate-challenge-shows-weakness-white-house-continues-to-deflect-amid-ramped-up-rhetoric-from-china-nk-and-russia\/\" title=\"Biden response to Putin debate challenge shows weakness, White House continues to deflect amid ramped up rhetoric from China, NK and Russia\">de-escalate tensions<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, following alleged talks brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, declared an end to the mutiny. Prigozhin emphasized that no blood was shed among their fighters during this period. He expressed that the time has arrived for a new phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}