The anti-terrorist operation regime declared in the Russian capital and the Moscow and Voronezh regions after the rebellion of the mercenaries of the wagner grouphas been lifted, authorities reported today. “The head of the Department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the city of Moscow and the Moscow region has decided to cancel the legal regime of anti-terrorist operation on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region from 09.00 (06.00 GMT) on June 26, 2023,” said the institution.

With this decision, all the temporary restrictions on citizen rights and the additional powers of the security forces that this regime implies are lifted. “Currently, the situation in the Moscow area is stable,” the FSB statement stressed. However, the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin, has maintained this Monday as Holiday, something he had decreed last Saturday.

Likewise, the extraordinary measure was also lifted in the Voronezh region, some 400 kilometers south of Moscow and where the column of mercenaries had to go north to reach the capital, the governor of that entity reported on his Telegram channel. federated, Alexander Gusev.

Are anti-terrorist measures allowed the security forces to restrict the freedom of movement of citizens, the intervention without a warrant of their communications, both by telephone and by internet, and even use their means of transport and with the lifting of the operation, these cities return to the normal. In this sense, the Russian capital woke up calm and with most of the businesses open, although there is less influx in the metro in the early hours of the day.

The rebellion led by the head of the Wagners, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was dismantled this Saturday, less than 24 hours after its start, thanks to mediation by the President of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenko. The agreement, reached when the Wagners had taken the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and their columns were 200 kilometers from Moscow, exempts Prigozhin and his mercenaries from criminal prosecution. The Wagner chief will go into exile in Belarus, while fighters who did not directly participate in the uprising will be able to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.

Russian Defense Minister reappears

Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, for his part, made his first public appearance at an inspection of the forward command post of Russian units fighting in Ukraine, following the 24-hour Wagner armed rebellion staged on Saturday by the mercenaries. of the Wagner Group, informed his department today. During his visit to the Western Group of Forces “he verified the high efficiency in the identification and destruction of military equipment and enemy deployment points in the tactical areas of the group’s area of ​​responsibility,” the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on its Telegram channel.