Russian President Vladimir Putin grimaces during his joint press conference with Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune (not pictured) at the Grand Kremlin Palace, June,15,2023, in Moscow, Russia.
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday the organizers of an armed mutiny over the weekend will be "brought to justice" and that his military would have put down the rebellion anyway.
In exchange for his turning back, a criminal case against Prigozhin was dropped and he was permitted to leave Russia for Belarus.
On Monday, Putin said any "armed rebellion would have been put down anyway."
Prigozhin has said his goal was never to seize political control of the Kremlin and overthrow Putin, but rather to protest a planned dissolution of his Wagner Group, his private army.
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Vladimir Putin grimaces, Abdelmajid Tebboune, Vladimir Putin, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin, Prigozhin, Sen, Mark Warner
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Algerian, WASHINGTON —, Wagner Group, Senate Intelligence
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