{"id":1957054,"date":"2023-06-26T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-prigozhin-investigation-still-open-despite-supposed-truce-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:11:33","slug":"russias-prigozhin-investigation-still-open-despite-supposed-truce-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-prigozhin-investigation-still-open-despite-supposed-truce-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Prigozhin probe ongoing despite claimed truce: Report"},"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\">16<\/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%2Frussias-prigozhin-investigation-still-open-despite-supposed-truce-report%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=1957054&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>The Criminal Investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s Attempted Mutiny<\/h2>\n<p>The criminal investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the private Russian mercenary group known as Wagner, for his attempted mutiny is still open, according to Russian media.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin, who ordered his forces to march to Moscow this weekend in a stunning attempt to take on top Russian leaders directly following months of public and blistering criticism, abruptly agreed to pull his troops back and flee to neighboring Belarus in exchange for clemency from Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The criminal case against Prigozhin has not been closed. The investigation is continuing,&#8221; a source in the Russian Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office told TASS on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Threatening a &#8220;March for Justice&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Following a decree that his soldiers would have to join the Russian military and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-prigozhin-investigation-still-open-despite-supposed-truce-report\/\" title=\"Russia's Prigozhin probe ongoing despite claimed truce: Report\">subsequent supposed air attack<\/a> on his forces by the ministry, Prigozhin declared a &#8220;march for justice&#8221; on Friday, in which he threatened to take his private army to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, in public remarks, said the threat from the Wagner Group posed an existential risk.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are fighting for the lives and security of our people, for our sovereignty and independence, for the right to remain Russia, a state with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-supports-ukraines-bid-for-membership-to-live-the-european-dream\/\" title=\"EU Supports Ukraine\u2019s Bid for Membership to \u201cLive the European Dream\u201d\">thousand-year history<\/a>,&#8221; Putin said, adding that the government will hold those who &#8220;prepared an armed insurrection&#8221; accountable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Belarusian-Brokered Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Prigozhin&#8217;s troops briefly seized the southern Russian city of Rostov and started making their way toward Moscow when Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko&#8217;s regime announced it had brokered a deal between Putin and his former caterer.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNegotiations continued throughout the day. As a result, they came to agreements on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia,\u201d Lukashenko\u2019s <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.\">press service announced<\/a>, per the Moscow Times. \u201cYevgeny Prigozhin accepted President Alexander Lukashenko\u2019s proposal to stop the movement of Wagner\u2019s 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>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-u-s-travelers-kidnapped-by-cartel-gunmen-in-mexico-near-texas\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Travelers Kidnapped by Cartel Gunmen in Mexico near Texas\">location remains unknown<\/a>, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the aftermath of the deal that the &#8220;criminal case will be dropped against him,&#8221; though that appears not to be the case.<\/p>\n<h3>A Public Threat to Putin&#8217;s Reign<\/h3>\n<p>The short-lived challenge to Putin represents one of the most public threats to his reign in more than two decades. U.S. officials, who have remained in close contact with their allies, argue that the weekend&#8217;s rebellion demonstrates &#8220;cracks&#8221; within Putin&#8217;s own circles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t have full information obviously, and it is too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go. And I suspect that this is a moving picture and we haven\u2019t seen the last act yet. But we could say this. First of all, what we\u2019ve seen is extraordinary. And I think you\u2019ve seen cracks emerge that weren\u2019t there before,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing criminal probe on Yevgeny Prigozhin, the creator of Russian mercenary group Wagner, remains active. Russian media reports that Prigozhin&#8217;s audacious plan to confront top leaders in Moscow after months of criticism is under investigation. He commanded his forces to march towards the capital, resulting in this ongoing inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1957055,"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-1957054","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\/1957054","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=1957054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}