The President of the State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) Vyacheslav Volodin said that many mercenaries of the Wagner Group, the group that rebelled late last week, will continue to serve Russia, EFE reports. agency, quotes Agerpres.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the “Wagnerians” who want to defend Russia to “continue their service with arms in hand,” Volodin wrote in his Telegram account on Sunday.

“As far as I know, many of them agreed,” he added.

Putin became stronger after the Wagner uprising, Volodin claims

Volodin noted that the uprising of the Wagner group under the leadership of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 23-24, which was stopped by agreement due to the mercenaries’ approach to Moscow, “showed how high the prestige of the president (Putin) is.” “in civil society and among the military”.

According to Volodin, the leader of the Kremlin “emerged from this extremely difficult situation with stronger positions, both in the country and in the world.”

“If it was Putin, the Soviet Union would not have collapsed either”

“If there were people like Putin at the head of the state in 1917 and 1991, there would not have been a revolution and the Soviet Union would not have collapsed,” the State Duma leader concluded.

Wagner’s mercenaries stopped the rebellion after the Russian president promised that the criminal case against them would be closed, Prigozhin would leave for Belarus, and the members of the group could return home or officially join the armed forces.

Prigozhin’s stated goal, which he did not achieve, was the dismissal of Minister of Defense Serhiy Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Gerasimov, whom he blamed for months of military failures in Ukraine. and for the large number of casualties among the Russian troops.

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