Pak Sahafat – Mikhail Podoliak, senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed his anger at the end of the crisis in Russia, and said: I was really surprised by the decision of Wagner Group Chairman Yevgeny Prigozhin to withdraw.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report, citing Ukrainian media, Zelenskiy’s chief advisor said: The next 48 hours will determine the new status of the Russian Federation.
Podoliak wrote on his Twitter account: either a full-scale civil war, or a negotiated transfer of power, or a temporary reprieve before the fall of Vladimir Putin’s government.
According to him, all potential players are now deciding their sides and the deafening silence of the elite in Russia has been maintained so far.
According to the Ukrainian media, Podoliak said in a commentary for the media: Russia is actually witnessing the beginning of a civil war.
According to Podoliak, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, showed the Russian authorities that from now on, the monopoly of violence is not in the hands of the government of this country.
Podoliak also did not hide his anger at Prigozhin’s decision to stop the advance of his forces towards Moscow and said: Prigozhin’s decision really surprised me, he almost overruled Putin, took control of Russia’s central authorities, reached Moscow and suddenly backed down because a very special middleman with a dubious reputation (Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko) promised security guarantees from Putin’s side was given to him.
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Sputnik news agency announced that with Prigozhin agreeing to the proposal of the President of Belarus, the group stopped its movement towards Moscow.
This Russian media wrote that Alexander Lukashenko, with the agreement of his Russian counterpart, had a conversation with the head of the Wagner militia group.
Sputnik quoted Prigozhin and wrote that this group was present 200 kilometers from Moscow and will withdraw its military columns in the opposite direction.
The Wagner group claimed in a statement on Friday night that Russian army forces attacked the group’s positions.
Prigozhin, head of Wagner, said in a statement published on the group’s Telegram channel: “A missile attack was carried out on the positions of the Wagner group and there are many victims.”