The Belarusian president said on Tuesday June 27 that the boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Evgeny Prigojine, was expected during the day in Belarus, as part of an agreement that put an end to his armed rebellion in Russia last week. “I see that Prigojine is already traveling by plane. Yes, indeed, he is in Belarus today”, said Alexander Lukashenko, using a turn of phrase that could both mean that the boss of Wagner is about to arrive or that he has already arrived. Follow our live.
Vladimir Putin thanks the soldiers who prevented a “civil war” during the Wagner rebellion. The Russian president on Tuesday thanked the soldiers who prevented a “civil war” during the rebellion of the paramilitary group last weekend. “Along with your brothers in arms, you opposed these disturbances, the result of which would inevitably have been chaos”, declared the Russian head of state in front of the military in Moscow. A minute of silence was then observed for pilots killed in “carrying out their duty with honor”.
More than 70 executions of detained civilians. Since the start of the Russian invasion, the UN has recorded 77 summary executions of civilians arbitrarily detained by Russia in the territories it occupies, according to a report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. According to this document, the Russian forces “engaged in widespread torture and ill-treatment”.
kyiv claims that its “soldiers have advanced in all areas”. Volodymyr Zelensky “visited units of the armed forces of the operational and strategic group of Khortytsia”, near Donetsk on Monday. He claimed that his “soldiers [avaient] progressed in all areas”celebrating “a happy day”. “I wished them more days like this”he said in his daily address.