The PMC's founder Evgeniy Prigozhin will "go to Belarus," Dmitry Peskov says | The criminal case, launched this weekend, against Wagner Private Military Company founder Evgeniy Prigozhin will be dropped and he will leave Russia, the Kremlin announced on Saturday evening. ● Spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed that Prigozhin, a Saint Petersburg Tycoon who made his initial fortune in catering, "will go to Belarus." ● He added that Wagner's fighters will not be persecuted, taking into account their efforts on the frontlines of the Ukraine conflict. Peskov explained that President Vladimir Putin's team "have always respected their exploits." DETAILS TO FOLLOW

On Friday, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal case for inciting armed mutiny over statements made on behalf of Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. | The FSB said that there was a threat of escalation on Russian territory. The Russian Defense Ministry said that social media reports about alleged Russian military strikes on camps belonging to PMC Wagner were not true. Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov has made a report to Russian President Vladimir Putin concerning Prigozhin's case, according to the Kremlin. Security has been boosted in several regions of Russia, as well as the capital of Moscow, on Saturday morning.

■ Prigozhin Agrees to Stop PMC Wagner March, Start De-Escalation After Lukashenko's Mediation (Sputnik News)
■ Wagner boss confirms cancellation of advance on Moscow (RT.com)
■ Russians Urged to Unite in Face of Wagner Armed Mutiny Attempt (Sputnik News)
■ Address to citizens of Russia (President of Russia)
■ Key points of Putin’s address to nation over PMC Wagner coup attempt (RT.com)
■ Russia will defend itself from internal treachery, says Putin (TASS)
■ We will defend our country from internal treason – Putin (RT.com)
■ Chechen commandos leave for areas of tensions - Kadyrov (TASS)
■ Prigozhin Coup Attempt: What We Know So Far (Sputnik News)
■ Prigozhin charged with armed mutiny, to face up to 20 years in prison (TASS)
■ FSB opens criminal case after Wagner boss calls for ‘armed rebellion’ (RT.com)
■ Top Russian general sends message to ‘mutinous’ Wagner PMC (RT.com)
■ Sergey Surovikin calls on Wagner PMC to resolve problems peacefully, not to aid enemy (TASS)
■ Wagner chief spreading misinformation – MOD (RT.com)


■ Lukashenko negotiates with Prigozhin (BELTA)(Belarus)
■ Wagner chief says his rebel troops 'turning back to avoid bloodshed' (The New Indian Express)
■ Wagner mercenary group standing down its coup attempt on Moscow after talks with Kremlin (LBC News)
■ Erdoğan ready to help seek 'peaceful resolution' in Russia (Hürriyet Daily News)(Türkiye)
■ Russian president calls armed Wagner Group rebellion a 'betrayal' and vows 'punishment' (The Scotsman)
■ Defiant Wagner chief says his forces in Ukraine have crossed into Russia (Yeni Şafak)(Türkiye)
■ President of Russia calls actions of Prigozhin “rebellion and stab in the back” (24.kg)(Kyrgyzstan)
■ Prigozhin in open rebellion after Kremlin’s attempt to bring his Wagner Group under state control backfires
■ Russia urges Wagner forces to return to 'points of permanent deployment' (The Business Standard)(India)
■ Explained: Wagner Group coup against Putin, Russian military leadership (Hindustan Times)
■ On Prigozhin's Insurrection Farce (Moon of Alabama)


■ ‘Staggering’: How Western media is responding to Prigozhin’s coup attempt (RT.com)
■ Ukrainian officials jubilant over coup attempt in Russia (RT.com)
■ ‘Won’t surrender’: Wagner chief on Putin's ‘treason’ claim after Russia coup (Hindustan Times)
■ Putin vows to ‘punish’ Russian mercenary force after they launch shock attack (Sunday World)(Ireland)
■ Defiant Prigozhin says his fighters are “patriots,” lambasts “corruption” that plagues Russia’s imperial conquests (Euromaidan Press/George Soros)

Hal Turner | The chatter about an attack upon a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine has ramped-up exponentially of late, and many of us believed the chatter was about the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) but it's not. Turns out it is about the South Ukraine Nuclear Power plant because it is being used to store US/NATO high-tech weapons, and is now the Intelligence HQ for NATO in the war. ● The US and NATO are creating all this bluster about invoking NATO Treaty Article 5, "Collective Self-Defense" if there is a tactical nuclear explosion in Ukraine OR IF there is an attack upon a nuclear power plant which causes radiation leakage. ● Russia made clear from the beginning of its Special Military Operation to de-militarize and de-NAZIFY Ukraine that they already know NATO Conventional military forces are superior to Russian Conventional forces. But, President Putin pointed out, Russia is also a nuclear power and many of Russia's weapons are far superior to those held by NATO. He then made clear that if Article 5 Collective Self Defense is invoked against Russia, the Russian Federation would have no choice but to use its nuclear weapons for self preservation. ● As of today, June 23, 2023, Ukraine is LOSING the conflict very badly. We are now over three full weeks into Ukraine's much-vaunted "Spring Counter-Offensive" and it has achieved precisely nothing. In fact, Ukraine is doing so badly that media in Europe (Germany) is now poking fun at them, saying "It's not a counter-offensive, it's a crash test." Given the utterly dismal failure of Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive, the powers in NATO realize that Ukraine's _____ O N L Y _____ hope is if NATO troops enter the conflict on the side of Ukraine. But there's a problem: Russia has not attacked any NATO country. So there is no legal basis for NATO to take action. ● Turns out, the real nuclear power plant which may be the actual target, is the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (SUNPP). Why is this likely the "real" target? Because Ukraine and NATO are using this plant to store NATO High-tech weaponry such as HIMARS, ATACMS and the like. Ukraine and NATO are also using this plant as an Intelligence Headquarters, in which all NATO Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and targeting coordinate info is shared with Ukraine. (More) [+ See item below.]

With its counteroffensive failing, Kiev may cause a nuclear disaster to draw NATO into war with Russia, Dmitry Polyanskiy said. | Polyanskiy said on Twitter that Russia had “just drawn attention to these plans of [the] Kiev regime during the UN Security Council meeting” that morning. “The whole of Europe may be easily sacrificed by Ze and his blind Russophobic sponsors,” he added. “Don’t tell us we didn’t warn you!” ● Zelensky’s “plan” – according to some pro-Russian commentators – would involve causing a nuclear accident at the ZNPP facility, which has been under Russian control since the early days of the special military operation in Ukraine. According to this theory, Kiev would then blame the ensuing disaster on Russia, leading NATO to openly declare war on Russia in response. This exact scenario was mapped out by US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal on Thursday. The two lawmakers proposed a resolution under which the US would consider a meltdown at the plant as an act of war against NATO, due to the fact that Poland would be affected by radioactive fallout. Russia’s ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Antonov, cautioned that the “crazy” resolution could be laying the groundwork for such a false-flag incident.

■ U.S. Senators Introduce Resolution: NATO Article 5 Invokes If Tactical Nuke -- OR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - In Ukraine, emits radiation (Hal Turner Show)

In February 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry discovered the existence of 30 US-funded military biological laboratories in Ukraine. Russia also said that the labs revealed in Ukraine constituted only a small part of a global network of over 300 similar facilities. | Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said that Moscow is particularly concerned by the Pentagon's biolabs operating in Central Asia, similar to those it used to run in Ukraine and Georgia. These labs are capable of creating "race-specific" viruses, Patrushev specified. Patrushev urged his Central Asian colleagues to cooperate and coordinate more closely on biosecurity issues, including within the framework of bilateral memorandums already concluded. The United States and the United Kingdom seek to destabilize the situation in Central Asian countries in order to warrant the expansion of NATO's military presence in the region, Patrushev said.

A 6-year-old Afghan child died while in US federal custody, raising additional questions about the circumstances surrounding recurrent similar incidents. | A 6-year-old Afghan child -- who was taken to the United States after Washington's hasty withdrawal in 2021 -- died this week while in federal government custody, making it the third such death this year, CBS News reported citing a US official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the boy's death, which has not previously been made public, claimed that the Afghan child had a fatal disease. The authorities stated that he passed away on June 13. ● The little child was one of hundreds of Afghan children who were taken to the United States without their parents. The Office of Refugee Resettlement was given custody of those children because they were brought into the country without parents or other legal guardians. ● The Afghan boy's death is not an isolated incident, marking the third of an unaccompanied child in HHS custody in 2023.