Russian president Vladimir Putin has condemned the organisers of last weekend’s shortlived mutiny, saying they had betrayed their country and the fighters in their command.
In his first public comments since the end of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed uprising on Saturday, Putin asked Wagner paramilitaries to sign contracts with Russia’s defence ministry, go home or leave the country for Belarus.
The Russian president’s angry five-minute speech insisted Wagner’s revolt had been doomed to fail from the outset. In his appeal to Wagner’s rank-and-file, Putin said the mutiny’s organisers had “betrayed the country and those who were with them”, adding most of the group’s fighters were “patriots of Russia” who had been “used” by their command.
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