CNN —For two days after Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his abortive mutiny, Russian President Vladimir Putin said nothing in public.
Putin thanked security forces at the Kremlin Tuesday, for helping Russia to avoid "civil war."
“Putin values loyalty above all else,” Dmitri Alperovitch, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, told CNN.
Lukashenko claimed he told Prigozhin that he would be “crushed like a bug” if he continued his advance towards Moscow, and persuaded him to call of the mutiny.
Now that the dust has settled after a chaotic weekend, Putin is attempting to project an image of control.
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