Iran (IMNA) - President Raeisi and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke on the phone on Monday to discuss the Friday mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner squad, according to a tweet from Mohammad Jamshidi, the Iranian president's deputy chief of staff for political affairs.
The Iranian president voiced his entire support for the Russian leadership in relation to the events of June 24 in a phone call with Putin, according to the Kremlin, which also verified their conversation.
Disagreements between Prigozhin and Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, led to the mutiny.
In Ukraine, where Russia has been spearheading a military campaign, the Wagner commander accused Russia's military leadership of ordering a rocket strike on the group's field camps that killed "huge numbers" of his paramilitary soldiers. Moscow's authorities vehemently refuted his assertion.
The Iranian president voiced his entire support for the Russian leadership in relation to the events of June 24 in a phone call with Putin, according to the Kremlin, which also verified their conversation.
Disagreements between Prigozhin and Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, led to the mutiny.
In Ukraine, where Russia has been spearheading a military campaign, the Wagner commander accused Russia's military leadership of ordering a rocket strike on the group's field camps that killed "huge numbers" of his paramilitary soldiers. Moscow's authorities vehemently refuted his assertion.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary forces gave orders to his soldiers on Saturday to turn around from their march towards Moscow in order to prevent violence after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko aimed at defusing the situation.
Jamshidi claims that Putin informed Raeisi of recent events in his nation and stressed that they did not put Russia's national sovereignty in jeopardy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemned any outside meddling in national matters in a phone discussion with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov on Saturday.
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