Moscow ends security measures in response to Wagner mutiny
On Monday, the city of Moscow lifted the "anti-terrorist" security regime that had been implemented over the weekend. The security measures were put in place after Wagner mercenaries, involved in the mutiny, posed a potential threat of storming the city.
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- Published Date: 10:19 | 26 June 2023
- Modified Date: 10:28 | 26 June 2023
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said he was cancelling a counter-terrorism regime imposed in the Russian capital during what the authorities on Saturday called an armed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group.
Sobyanin made the announcement in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging application on Monday. Russian media cited local Federal Security Service (FSB) offices as saying similar regimes had been cancelled in the Voronezh and Moscow regions.
Separately, Russia's National Anti-terrorism Committee said the situation in the country was "stable".
Anti-terrorist regimes were imposed in the three regions on Saturday, as a column of rebellious Wagner mercenaries moved towards Moscow, exchanging fire with security forces.
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