Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to pilots killed fighting an aborted mutiny, confirming their deaths for the first time while thanking Russians for showing patriotic solidarity in the face of the Wagner militia group’s march on Moscow. Reuters reports that in his first public comment since Saturday’s armed revolt, Putin also said that Russia’s enemies wanted to see the country “choke in bloody civil strife”, accusing the West of wanting Russians to “kill each other”. Meanwhile it is also reported that Wagner founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now in Belarus.
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