Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin has called for peace without the knowledge of President Putin. He said Russia has faced a great deal of challenge to its stability after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny.
Russia has faced “a challenge to its stability” and must remain united behind Vladimir Putin, the country’s prime minister said in the aftermath of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny.
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The consolidation of the whole of society is especially important, we need to act together, as one team, and maintain the unity of all forces, rallying around the president, Mikhail Mishustin said at a televised government meeting.
The former head of Russia’s federal tax service, a technocrat who was appointed PM in 2020, also took a swipe at the west. As the president noted, virtually the entire military, economic, information machine of the west is directed against us, he said.
Earlier on Monday, Russia’s defence minister appeared on state TV and emergency counter-terrorism measures were cancelled in Moscow and surrounding regions as the Kremlin sought to restore calm following the aborted mutiny by heavily armed mercenary fighters from Prigozhin’s Wagner group.
The defence ministry released footage that it claimed showed Sergei Shoigu visiting the forward command post of one of the formations of the Western’ group of troops.
In the video, Shoigu is shown riding in a vehicle and arriving at a command post, where he listens to reports from officers and pores over a battlefield map.
If confirmed, the footage would be the first sighting of Shoigu since Prigozhin declared war on him and his ministry on Friday.
However, the video was released without sound and it was unclear when and where it was filmed. Russian news agencies have in the past released pre-filmed segments called “preserves”, attempting to show that officials including Vladimir Putin were working in the Kremlin when they could be hundreds of miles away.
Nonetheless, the footage showed tacit government support for Shoigu, whom Prigozhin had sought to oust with his uprising.
Moscow city, Moscow region, and Voronezh region officials have announced they will end counter-terrorism regimes introduced on Friday, when it appeared Russia was on the brink of civil war.
Law enforcement agencies ordered evacuations of major cultural institutions including the Pushkin Museum and GES-2 cultural centres, Gorky Park and others, cancelled cultural and musical events and introduced a blanket ban on public events.
Troops have also been dismantling barricades and repairing roads blocked with anti-tank traps set up to stop the Wagner convoy, as a sense of uneasy normalcy returned to the Russian capital on Sunday.
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The Sunday night spot appeared to be pre-filmed, with Putin discussing his daily routine and giving no comments on the largest armed uprising in recent Russian history.
The conflict between Prigozhin and Shoigu was at the centre of the weekend’s mutiny.
