Is the US Behind the Miltia’s Mutinuous Bid in Russia?

Date: 24 June 2023 - 21:45

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

What is happening, or has happened and ended in Russia, is a purely internal affair, which the West and its media horns are trying to blow out of proportion.

According to official statements from Moscow a sort of mutiny took place within the ranks of Russian forces engaged in the NATO war in Ukraine when a private militia clashed with the regular army and refused to defend national interests against the enemy.

This has prompted President Vladimir Putin to declare in a televised address on Saturday: “This is a stab in the back to our country, to our nation. What we have been faced with is exactly betrayal. Extravagant ambitions and personal interests led to treason.”

His remarks came after Yevgeny Prigozhin who is chief of the Wagner Militia led by a Ukrainian-born army veteran, Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, claimed he was inside the army headquarters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and controlled military sites there.

The claim could not be confirmed, and with rumours rife in the western media of a counter offensive and advance by the NATO-directed Ukrainian army in areas under Russian control since 2014, it smells of a US plot to try to weaken Moscow’s morale.

Observers, however, point out the gross inability of Prigozhin and his hirelings, irrespective of their numbers, to challenge the might of the Russian army or pose dangers to the stability of the Russian Federation.

It is said the chief of the private militia deeply resents Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu – an ethnic Tuva of Siberian Turkic origin – who belongs to the inner circle President Putin.

The propaganda of the western media and politicians is designed to deceive world public opinion in the vain hope of creating dissension in Russian ranks.

Moscow is already probing the possibility of infiltration by Euro-American moles amongst the militia members and has declared amnesty for all hired hands who return to their bases.

As part of its principled policy the Islamic Republic of Iran supports the rule of law in Russia and strongly condemns any outside interference.

Nour News, which is affiliated to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), pointing to Putin’s remarks about treason and his resolve to prevent infighting as the latest plot of the West to undermine its war efforts in Ukraine, said:

“Putin’s remarks indicate his awareness of the West’s new scheme to create a new front within Russia through the ‘Wagner Group’ to try to weaken national cohesion and bring Moscow to its knees in the Ukraine war.”

Since the start of the NATO war, the US and its European accomplices have been providing Ukraine with military equipment worth tens of billions of dollars, while instructing the professional comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy – a non-Semitic Khazar Jew with strong Zionist inclinations – to refuse any mediation to end the conflict which has only brought death and destruction to the native Slavic people.

The massive weapons flow that includes rocket systems, drones, tanks, armoured vehicles and probable supply of F-16 fighter jets, in addition to collaboration in sabotage efforts to blow up bridges and dams, have, however, failed to halt the steady Russian advance.