{"id":35393,"date":"2023-06-27T07:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35393"},"modified":"2023-06-27T07:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:21:38","slug":"putin-vow-to-shore-support-for-wagner-amid-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/27\/putin-vow-to-shore-support-for-wagner-amid-mutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin vow to shore support for Wagner amid mutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a TV address late last night Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of fomenting the \u201cmutiny\u201d that took place at the weekend &#8211; praising Russia for its \u201cunity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin\u2019s much-awaited statement came hours after the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, denied his \u201cmarch for justice\u201d was aimed at toppling the Russian president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin held a meeting with the heads of the country\u2019s security services shortly after making his statement, and defence minister Sergei Shoigu was among those attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prigozhin had demanded Shoigu be sacked before he started his march towards Moscow on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Wagner leader said the rebellion was a last-ditch bid to ensure his mercenary group\u2019s continued existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m here with Marita Moloney and Oliver Slow &#8211; stick with us as we bring you the latest lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a TV address late last night Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of fomenting the \u201cmutiny\u201d that took place at the weekend &#8211; praising Russia for its \u201cunity\u201d. Putin\u2019s much-awaited statement came hours after the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, denied his \u201cmarch for justice\u201d was aimed at toppling the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,6453,10419,9833,5340,10291,3805,9320,71,3457,5217,7217,5655,1383,11957,6348,694,9318,10292,12790,7986],"class_list":["post-35393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-defence-minister-sergei-shoigu","tag-justice","tag-meeting","tag-moscow","tag-mutiny","tag-president","tag-prigozhin","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sacked","tag-security","tag-security-services","tag-unity","tag-us","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-wagner","tag-wagner-group","tag-weekend","tag-yevgeny-prigozhin"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}