Putin vows organisers of ‘treasonous’ rebellion will be ‘brought to justice’ in first speech since Wagner Mutiny

In his first address to the nation following the apparent coup attempt from the Wagner mercenary group, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the organisers of the “treasonous” rebellion will be “brought to justice”.

Without mentioning Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin by name, Vladimir Putin said that those who organised the alleged attempt to oust Russia’s military top brass on Saturday will face “justice”, according to a translation of the remarks by NBC News.

Though he aknowledged that the mutiny represented a threat to Russian society, Putin claimed that the “armed rebellion would have been put down anyway.”

The statements from the Russian dictator seemingly contradict the deal struck between Prigozhin and Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, the terms of which were undisclosed but seemed to indicate that Prigozhin’s decision to halt the march on Moscow came in exchange for the charges against him being dropped.

However, earlier in the day on…