uring the investigation of the criminal case initiated by the investigation department of the Federal Security Service on June 23 under Article 279 of the Criminal Code on the fact of armed mutiny, it was established that its participants on June 24 ceased their actions directly aimed at committing the crime. In view of this and other circumstances relevant to the investigation, the investigators issued a resolution on June 27 to drop the criminal case," said the Public Relations Centre of the FSB of Russia.
Correct me, if I wrong, but if a military unit shoot down a helicopter of they own country , on they way to the capital of the same country to take over the power from the central goverment then that is "armed mutiny"
Unless they received an official order to do it so on the chain of command of the given country.
For me it feels like a centraly organised, small team (maybe ten person ) "rocking the boat" excercise to uncover as many sleeping NATO and Captiol agent as possible.
Yeah, Putin is the top of the chain of command of the Russian Armed Forces. Wagner must be part of the same chain of command.
So , he can give command to anyone, and refusing to follow his orders is a criminal case.
and I read ten times the transcript of his speach, that in real time of danger would be used to give command to military units, and all that he did was just "urging the participants".
The relevant part of the speech :
As the President of Russia and Commander-in-Chief, as a citizen of Russia, I will do my utmost to defend the country, to protect the constitutional order, the lives, security, and freedom of its citizens.
Those who organized and prepared the military uprising, who raised arms against their comrades-in-arms, have betrayed Russia. And they will be held accountable for it. And I urge those who are being dragged into this crime not to make the fatal and tragic, an irreversible mistake, and to make the only right choice - to stop participating in criminal actions.
What is it ?