Vladimir Putin will meet his top security officials on Monday night, the Kremlin announced, after the Russian president briefly addressed the nation on the failed uprising by the Wagner paramilitary group, AFP reported.

“Vladimir Putin is holding a working meeting” with Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, Minister of Internal Affairs Volodymyr Kolokoltsev, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, Director of the FSB (Security Service) Oleksandr Bortnikov and Chief of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov, the press secretary of the president Dmytro Peskov said. quoted by the state news agency RIA Novosti.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech late on Monday in which he said he had ordered to “avoid bloodshed” that he believed Ukraine and the West wanted in the failed uprising by the Wagner paramilitary group, thanking Russians for their “patriotism.” and unity, reports AFP.

“From the very beginning of the events, on my direct instructions, measures were taken to avoid great bloodshed,” Putin said in a televised address, assessing that the West and Ukraine wanted “such a fratricidal result.”

He thanked Alexander Lukashenko for peace with Wagner.