Russia is investigating whether Western intelligence services were involved in the rebellion by the Russian mercenary group Wagner. The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovdeclared this Monday to the television channel RT that Russia has “structures for this purpose and I assure you that they already dedicate themselves to that“.
The head of Kremlin diplomacy added in this regard that the US intelligence services expected the mutiny to be successful: “I saw how they reported events in Russia. In particular the if I remember correctly, reported that American intelligence knew several days in advance of the preparations for the mutiny, but decided not to tell anyone, apparently hoping that the rebellion would succeed,” he said.
However, he commented that this Sunday the US ambassador, Lynne Tracy, “transmitted signals” to the Russian representatives “which were, above all, that The United States is not involved in this. [la rebelión]who was confident that nuclear weapons would be fine and that US diplomats would not be affected.” In addition, he noted that the US ambassador “underlined in a special way that the US starts from the fact everything that happened is an internal matter of Russia“, reports efe.
Wagner fighters leave the Rostov-on-Don headquarters on Saturday.
Lavrov recalled that the US always reacts in very different ways to rebellion attempts in third countries, depending on who is in power and who is trying to carry out the coup, and he referred in particular to what happened in Ukraine in 2014: “The bloody provocations against unarmed law enforcement officers, the coup against the legitimate president just hours after an EU-backed deal to settle the conflict was signed. The US did not protest against this revolt, as did its European allies,” he asserted.
However, he denounced that the West described as a coup attempt the Moldovan peaceful protests against the Europeanist president Maia Sanduin which thousands of people participated.
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“Where the West is interested in keeping the authorities that they harbored, there can be no protests by definition, but where the authorities do not respond to hegemonic interests but to the national interests of the country and the people, they launch any type of scum against them” , said. According to Lavrov, “those are the American rules, the world american stylejust as they want to see it and how they want to strengthen it”.
On the contrary, he indicated, as a result of the events of June 24, many diplomats called the Russian Foreign Ministry “with solidarity messagessupport and security that the situation will be kept under control, that it will return to the constitutional channel”.
“I also had several telephone conversations at the initiative of my foreign colleagues. Many of them […] They asked that we not make these calls publicso we try not to do it, we respect their requests,” he said.
