{"id":1959792,"date":"2023-06-28T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-axes-pledge-to-drop-criminal-charges-against-prigozhin-begins-targeting-mutiny-sympathizers\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:41:50","slug":"russia-axes-pledge-to-drop-criminal-charges-against-prigozhin-begins-targeting-mutiny-sympathizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-axes-pledge-to-drop-criminal-charges-against-prigozhin-begins-targeting-mutiny-sympathizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia reneges on promise to dismiss charges against Prigozhin, targets mutiny supporters."},"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\">24<\/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-axes-pledge-to-drop-criminal-charges-against-prigozhin-begins-targeting-mutiny-sympathizers%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=1959792&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 President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> Sets Revenge in Motion<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin is wasting no time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limbaugh-kamala-harris-just-keeps-getting-worse\/\" title=\"LIMBAUGH: Kamala Harris Just Keeps Getting Worse\">seeking revenge<\/a> against those who supported Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s mutiny against the Russian military establishment last week. Various statements from Russian-state media and actions taken by Russian officials indicate that Putin is starting to put his plans into action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin, the former boss of the Wagner paramilitary group, appears to have managed to escape to Belarus after Belarusian President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko brokered a deal to halt Wagner&#8217;s advance on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, Lukashenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/27\/world\/europe\/prigozhin-russia-wagner-what-we-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that Putin has discussed the possibility of eliminating Prigozhin, a scenario that remains on the table and is highly likely to occur, according to military experts.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Russia had announced that the criminal charges against Prigozhin by the Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly the KGB, would be dropped as part of the deal brokered by Lukashenko. However, now that the mutiny has been quelled, Russia&#8217;s Kremlin-run news organizations are reporting that the charges against Prigozhin have not been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever agreement they reached over the weekend, Putin has now abandoned it,&#8221; said Martin Kragh, the deputy director of the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies, in an interview with TIME Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pose problems for Putin often find themselves exiled, persecuted, or even killed under mysterious circumstances or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-axes-pledge-to-drop-criminal-charges-against-prigozhin-begins-targeting-mutiny-sympathizers\/\" title=\"Russia reneges on promise to dismiss charges against Prigozhin, targets mutiny supporters.\">blatantly obvious ways<\/a>, such as poisoning with substances only available to a limited number of governments worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner soldiers will have to sign a contract at the beginning of July to continue working for the Russian government, or they will be allowed to return to civilian life in Russian society &#8220;under the watchful eyes of the Kremlin,&#8221; as stated in the report.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Prigozhin revealed that the FSB has already begun targeting sympathizers and those who violated their oath during the mutiny, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1d084fc7-d249-451d-b791-56a05b9010fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report also mentioned that the Russian government is now taking steps to remove &#8220;patriotic hardliners&#8221; from key positions of power and is focused on promoting Putin loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Moscow Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-praises-free-beacon-on-senate-floor-for-exposing-biden-admin-effort-to-ban-abraham-accords\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz Praises Free Beacon on Senate Floor for Exposing Biden Admin Effort To Ban \u2018Abraham Accords\u2019\">multiple sources confirmed<\/a> that Russian General Sergei Surovikin was arrested because he &#8220;chose the side [of Prigozhin during the rebellion] and they grabbed him by the balls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Surovikin&#8217;s whereabouts, the source replied, &#8220;We don&#8217;t even comment on this information through internal channels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another source suggested that Surovikin sided with Prigozhin &#8220;for power.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be initiating his retaliation against supporters of Yevgeny Prigozhin&#8217;s mutiny. Russian-state media statements and actions by Russian officials indicate this. Prigozhin, the ex-leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, appears to have fled to Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1959794,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1959792","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}