Fourth Leader per day: Putin complained to Erdogan for an attempt at military rebellion

Kremlin head Vladimir Putin told Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan about an attempt at a coup in Russia. On Saturday, June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Turkish colleague Recep Taiip Erdogan. The Kremlin press service reports. It is noted that the Turkish side was the initiator of the conversation. The publication also states that Putin told Erdogan about the situation in the Russian Federation against the backdrop of armed rebellion.

"The President of the Turkish Republic has expressed full support for the steps of the Russian leadership," the press service writes. From the Kremlin's website, it follows that Erdogan is the fourth leader of the state, whom the Russian dictator spoke today. Earlier, he called Alexander Lukashenko, as well as the President of Kazakhstan Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev and the leader of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirzioev.

On the evening of June 23, the leader of the mercenaries Yevgeny Prigogin published an audio recording stating that the Council of Commanders of PEC "Wagner" made a decision to rebel against the military leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

On the night of June 24, Prigogine, accompanied by their soldiers with armored vehicles and tanks, entered Rostov-on-Don and almost immediately took control of the main military institutions in the city-they surrounded the headquarters of the Southern Military District, the police department at Budyonovsky, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Rostovskaya region, building of the regional UFSB, as well as the city administration.