Brussels, June 25 (EFE) and long term”, although it is still “too early” to know which ones.
“For now, the truth is that control was lost for 24 hours in Russia and this should be very worrying news for the Kremlin,” a senior European Commission source told a small group of media, including EFE.
The Community Executive insists that the riot that the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, tried to carry out, “is an internal Russian matter” in which “there was no intervention from abroad.”
Brussels believes that “we still do not fully understand yesterday’s events and it will take time”, because “the truth is that it is too early to say what exactly the implications are”.
When the Wagner group’s columns were some 200 kilometers from Moscow, Prigozhin ordered them to back down, after reaching an agreement with the President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko, who agreed to host the leader of the mercenaries in his country.
An “opportunity” for Ukraine, according to the US
The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, affirmed this Sunday that what happened in the last hours in Russia with the uprising of the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, against the military leadership, represents an opportunity for Ukraine and its counteroffensive.
“To the extent that Russia is now distracted, that Putin has to worry about what’s going on inside Russia as much as he has to worry about what he’s unsuccessfully trying to do in Ukraine, I think that creates an additional advantage for Ukrainians,” he said in an interview with CNN.
Thus, the fact that Putin has “someone from within, who directly questions” his authority and “the premises on which he launched this aggression against Ukraine”, that, “in itself, is something very powerful”.
Lithuania calls for reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank
The President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, urged today to reinforce the entire eastern flank of NATO, whose summit will be hosted by this Baltic country next July, given the alleged presence in Belarus of the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin.
“We see that Belarus has become a refuge for war criminals,” Nauseda said on Twitter, after Prigozhin decided yesterday to stop the advance of the “Wagnerites” towards Moscow after negotiating with President Alexandr Lukashenko.
The Lithuanian president affirms in his message that he has “closely examined the events in Russia” with the Defense Council of his country, which borders Belarus, and found that “the Moscow regime is increasingly vulnerable.”