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What awaits Wagner fighters after Putin’s speech?
The group’s fighters roamed the southern Russian city of Voronezh “eating shawarma” on Monday – hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to describe the rebellion by Wagner’s mercenaries as a coup and treason. Newspaper. Financial Times.
In addition, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary group, accused the Russian Defense Ministry in exile in Belarus of targeting his group.
Analysts tell Al-Hura that Putin appears to be weak, but what has happened to correct the mistakes in his rule.
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In a brief speech, Putin again accused Wagner, without naming him, of “betraying his country and people” and “lying” to his fighters.
According to the Financial Times, there are still treason charges against the mercenary leader, which gives the regime “an opportunity for future prosecution”, Richard Weitz, a fellow professor at the US’s Hudson Institute, tells Al-Hurra.
The move by Prigozhin and his militia has greatly weakened the regime, but Weitz says the Kremlin could benefit from the uprising because it “highlighted weaknesses” in the Russian administrative structure.
Prigozhin was a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his forces contributed to supporting Russian military action in Ukraine, after he launched public criticism against the Kremlin and military leaders over the way the war was being waged.
After they took control of military command centers in the southern city of Rostov, thousands of Wagner fighters marched on Moscow, but retreated about 200 miles from the capital.
After mediation by Putin’s ally Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin moved to Belarus to keep calm.
Prigozhin said on Monday that his forces’ advances had “exposed serious problems” in Russia’s defense system.
According to Professor Weitz, “the Russian defense minister and chief of staff could be in trouble” because of the coup.
“Putin has held officials accountable, but he will not fire them now, so that the dismissal will not be considered a submission to Prigozhin,” Weitz said.
He added that “Putin was upset about the military’s declining popularity after seeing the public cheer for Prigozhin, not him.”
In a speech on Monday, Putin gave Wagner fighters three options: to volunteer for the Russian Defense Ministry, return to their homes or go to Belarus.
British newspaper The Telegraph quoted security chiefs as saying that Russian intelligence had threatened the families of leaders of the “Wagner” group not to continue marching towards Moscow before the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced his withdrawal.
The Financial Times says the ceasefire is still in limbo, with questions growing in Russia over whether the deal will go through.
The Kremlin seized billions of rubles in cash and gold bars from Prigozhin, straining Wagner financially, but staunch loyalists of President Vladimir Putin are proposing some tough solutions.
Andrei Gorolyov, a prominent Russian pro-war deputy, said he was “determined to shoot traitors in wartime”.
“No matter what wonderful stories they tell you, the only way out for Prigozhin is a bullet to the head,” he added, according to the Financial Times.
Despite the Kremlin’s initial promises to drop the criminal case against Prigozhin, state news agencies cited sources as saying he was still under investigation for organizing the rebellion.
It is not yet known how Prigozhin will act in relation to the options given to his fighters and his case.
According to Anna Pushevskaya, a Russia researcher at The Washington Institute, it’s too early to know the full ramifications of Prigozhin and his team’s rebellion, but she notes that “Putin, the Defense Department, Prigozhin and Wagner all came out weak.”
Boshevskaya told Al-Hurra, “The only winner from what happened was the Russian Security Service, which seemed to be the only effective institution in Russia, and the authorities now feel a growing need for it.”
And Pushevskaya asked, “How was Prigozhin able to advance so far toward Moscow without being stopped? And why were he and his men spared?” states that such questions are not answered. All of them show the Russian system differently than those who see Putin as an Iron Man might expect.
The Financial Times said that Wagner’s operations in Russia had not completely subsided, despite promises to return to its camps in Ukraine. According to the newspaper, several Wagner hotlines were still operating across Russia.
The newspaper contacted the lines on Monday and said it was still recruiting new fighters.
But Pushevskaya says it is almost certain that Wagner’s participation in the fighting in Ukraine, in its current form, is over.
Inner funnel
According to the Financial Times, the rebellion called for Wagner to be brought under firm government control. On Monday, senior lawmakers said Wagner would be barred from recruiting from prisons, depriving it of large human resources that have been one of its main bases.
The newspaper quoted analysts as saying that an “internal crackdown” targeting supporters of Prigozhin and his group was expected to erupt at any time in the country.
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Hebrew newspaper Maariv said on Friday that Israeli army chief Herzey Halevy informed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Thursday that the war in Gaza would take more than a few weeks.
Halevy’s words came in response to Blinken’s question on the matter, the newspaper quoted two Israeli sources familiar with Thursday’s meeting with the Israeli military cabinet in West Jerusalem.
He said: “Blinken raised the issue on his own initiative, and how long the Israeli army’s operation in Gaza is expected to continue in its current scope, which includes very large ground forces.”
According to the newspaper: “Blinken explained that (US President Joe) Biden’s administration is concerned that continued Israeli military action in Gaza, especially with the scale and intensity it is currently taking, will significantly increase international pressure. On Israel and America.”
He continued: “According to the sources, Blinken asked Israel to take additional measures to ensure that the operation in the southern Gaza Strip does not cause serious harm to civilians.”
It reported that Halevy responded that “the IDF’s operation in Gaza, including in the southern region, is expected to continue for more than a few weeks.”
Maariv pointed out that the Biden administration “has yet to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, or demand that Israel cease military action.”
He added: “But there is deep concern in Washington about the resumption of military action in the Gaza Strip after the (temporary) ceasefire that ended on Friday morning, especially about the (anticipated) Israeli military action in the south of the Gaza Strip, home to two million Palestinians.
He added: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Levy told Blinken that ground operations in southern Gaza would be less harmful to civilians than airstrikes.”
On Friday morning, a temporary cease-fire in the Gaza Strip ended on November 24 with Qatari-Egyptian mediation and lasted for 7 days, during which prisoners were exchanged and humanitarian aid brought into the enclave of about 2.3 million people. Palestinians.
During the pre-ceasefire round, the Israeli military repeated its messages, which asked residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move to the southern Gaza Strip, but targeted the displaced in areas and roads it said were “safe”. It committed documented massacres, which met with international and international condemnation.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war in the Gaza Strip that has caused massive infrastructural destruction and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to an official Palestinian official. and UN
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12/1/2023–|Last Updated: 12/1/202308:56 AM (Makkah Time)
4 Palestinians were killed and several others injured in attacks by the Israeli occupation army in different areas of Gaza.Clashes erupted on multiple axes in the area minutes after the end of a week-long humanitarian ceasefire. And its extension has not been announced.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reported martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli attack targeting a house in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The 4-day ceasefire that started last Friday was extended twice and ended today at 7 am local time.
The Israeli military said it had resumed operations against the Palestinian Islamist movement (Hamas) in Gaza, accusing the movement of violating ceasefire terms and firing into Israel. Gaza
The Israeli military confirmed that its warplanes were bombing all areas of the Gaza Strip, and military radio quoted a senior political source as saying, “We are back to fighting with full force and no negotiations have been held to release the abductees.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent monitored the Israeli offensive in the northwest of the Gaza Strip and artillery attacks targeting various parts of Gaza City. He confirmed that clashes broke out between the opposition and occupation forces in more than one area in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. He said the Israeli strike targeted a site near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The reporter confirmed that casualties were reported as a result of Israeli strikes and artillery fire in various parts of Gaza.
The government media office in Gaza announced a series of raids targeting the south of the Strip, while Gaza’s Interior Ministry confirmed that Israeli aircraft had targeted the town of Abasan east of Khan Yunis and a house in the Abu Iskandar area in the northwest. of Gaza City.
The seven-day ceasefire allowed for the exchange of prisoners from occupied prisons to Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, and facilitated the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
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The International Criminal Court announced Thursday that public prosecutor Karim Khan traveled to Israel “at the request and invitation” of survivors and families of victims of the October 7 Hamas attack.
The court explained through the “X” site that the visit was “not investigative in nature” but it “represented an important opportunity to express sympathy and initiate dialogue for all the victims.”
Khan is scheduled to travel to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he will meet with senior Palestinian officials, the court said.
Since October 7, Israel has launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 15,000 people, including more than 6,000 children.
The International Criminal Court, established in 2002 to prosecute the world’s worst atrocities, began investigating possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories in 2021, including possible crimes committed by Israeli forces, Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions.
Khan announced that his mandate would include crimes committed during the current war. But the tribunal’s teams could not enter Gaza and were not allowed to conduct trials in Israel, which is not a member of the tribunal.
The five signatories to the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty requested an inquiry into the “situation of the State of Palestine,” Khan announced, explaining that he had gathered “a large amount of information.” Both sides could face war crimes charges, legal experts said.
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