NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made a slip of the tongue when commenting on Wagner PMC and its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempt to stage a military insurgency in Russia. TASS.
While in Vilnius to prepare for the NATO summit, Stoltenberg said the events “showed the fragility of the German regime”.
Laughter broke out in the hall, and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, standing nearby, asked in surprise: “What kind of German regime?”
The Secretary General realized his mistake and corrected himself: “[События] It showed the weakness of the Russian regime.
The head of the North Atlantic Alliance also noted that he could not say “what will happen in the coming weeks and months”.
Earlier, The New York Times, citing US officials WroteThe United States did not reveal any gaps in the defense of the Russian Armed Forces during the private military company Wagner’s revolt.
On June 24, Wagner PMC fighters blocked the administrative buildings in Rostov-on-Don and began to advance towards Moscow. Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin attractivewhere he described the actions of the PMC chairman as “backstabbing”.
In the evening of the same day, the press service of the President of Belarus reported on the negotiations between Alexander Lukashenko and Prigozhin. As a result of negotiations, the head of the Wagner PMC announced that he had decided to deploy his columns and send them back to field camps.