Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks in this screengrab from a video released on June 24.
The Western stakes in the Ukraine war rose significantly as a result.
A mutinous weekend that saw mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flagrantly mock the Kremlin before aborting his march on Moscow evoked Russia’s blood-soaked history of revolutions and coups.
The Kremlin strongman seemed to blink at a military confrontation with Prigozhin’s Wagner Group fighters — in an act that might preserve his grip on power.
There’s now no doubt that the war Putin unleashed to wipe Ukraine off the map poses an existential threat to his political survival.
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Concord, Reuters, White, Kremlin, NATO
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Ukraine, Moscow, Europe, Belarus, Russian