The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurosent this Saturday a “hug of solidarity and support” to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putinafter the armed rebellion that lasted some 24 hours against the Ministry of Defense of that country, led by the group Wagner.
“I want to send (…) all our embrace of solidarity and support to the president of the Russian Federation, to comrade Vladimir Putin, who has been able to face an attempted betrayal, an attempted civil war, and is at this time, at this height, victorious, with Russia in peace”Maduro said in an act with the military in the state of Carabobo (central-north).
During the ceremony to celebrate the Day of the Venezuelan Army, the Chavista leader reiterated his support for Putin – a business partner and ideological ally of the so-called Bolivarian revolution – whom he called “brother of Venezuela”.
The pronouncement of Ripe It comes hours after his government condemned, in a statement, what it considered an “irrational threat” by the Wagner group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, whom he accused of “promoting an armed insurrection in the Federation of Russia through terrorist methods.
Venezuela He expressed “his absolute support” for Putin, as well as solidarity with the Russian people “in the face of this attack against the peace, stability and solid democracy of this sister country,” the letter reads.
The spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, assured today that Prigozhin “will go to Belarus”, when commenting on the details of the agreement with the man who led the uprising against the Russian military leadership.
The forces of Wagner they crossed the Russian border at dawn and took the Russian city of Rostov on the Don, after which columns of this formation set out in the direction of Moscow, but fell back on Prigozhin’s orders.
The Russian president described the Wagner uprising as treason and affirmed that those responsible will pay for it.
(With information from EFE)
Source: Gestion
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