Those involved in the Wagner Group’s aborted armed rebellion on Moscow wanted "Russian soldiers to kill each other" and were "taking revenge for their failures at the front", president Vladimir Putin has said in a recorded address.
Speaking for the first time since Saturday’s short-lived insurrection, the Russian leader said he would keep his “promise” to members of the mercenary group who “want to go to Belarus”, while others had the choice to sign a contract with the ministry of defence.
Putin thanked nation for unity and Wagner fighters for avoiding "bloodshed" after revolt.
He went on to claim that "neo-Nazis in Kyiv and the West" had wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other.
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