Russia gives Wagner Group an ultimatum to join the Russian Army in Syria or leave the country

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June 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Wednesday that Russian forces have given an ultimatum to the more than 2,000 Wagner Group mercenaries in Syria to join the army or leave the country.

The agency, based in London and informants in the Arab country, has indicated that Moscow has set a schedule to demobilize all Syrian contractors fighting alongside the Wagner Group, approximately 3,000 recruits.

Previously, a senior Pentagon official has assured that Russian military intelligence has arrested an unknown number of leaders of the mercenary group in Syria, as reported by Sky News Arabia.

Specifically, two knowledgeable sources have reported to ‘The Wall Street Journal’ that Wagner’s mercenaries have been transferred to the Jmeimim airbase, operated by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the coastal city of Latakia.

This occurs in the context of doubts about the future of the private company, led by Yevgeni Prigozhin. The Kremlin has highlighted this Wednesday that the operations of the Wagner Group in the Central African Republic, one of the countries in which the group is present, are internal to Moscow.

The rebellion of the Wagner Group, led by Prigozhin, began late on Friday with the seizure of the Russian city of Rostov, headquarters of the southern command of the Army, with the intention of heading towards Moscow to ask the Ministry of Defense for explanations for allegedly killing his men in a bombing raid.

In full conflict with the Kremlin and a few hundred kilometers from Moscow, the convoy turned around on Saturday afternoon thanks to the mediation of the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, in an agreement to stop the revolt, amnesty the mercenaries and send the exile to Belarus to Prigozhin.