Stoltenberg: – The biggest strategic mistake

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg speaks Monday morning about the weekend’s events in Russia.

– The events of this weekend are a Russian internal matter, and they are further evidence of the great strategic mistake made by President Putin with his illegal annexation of Crimea and war against Ukraine, the NATO chief told reporters present, according to Reuters.

Earlier that day, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, had expressed concern that Russian nuclear energy was entering an “unstable phase”.

For his part, Stoltenberg said that there are currently no indications that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons.

The former Norwegian prime minister is currently in Lithuania, where he and the country’s president, Gitanas Noseda, will hold a press conference later today.

insurgency

On Friday, the Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged an armed rebellion on Russian soil.

Allegedly, the aim was to force the Russian authorities to remove the Russian Defense Command.

As a result, Wagner’s forces took control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, and established several sharp posts on their way to the Russian capital, Moscow.

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Still under investigation

On Sunday, the news came that the Kremlin and the Wagner Group, in cooperation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, had negotiated a deal that included amnesty for Wagner soldiers.

The agreement also meant that Wagner’s boss was allowed to go into exile in Belarus.

The Russian newspaper wrote on Monday Kommersant That Prigozhin is still under investigation by the FSB after the armed rebellion against the Russian Defense Command.

Status updated.