For several hours this past weekend, it seemed Russian President Vladimir Putin was in serious danger of losing his grip on a nation he has led for more than two decades.
, it seemed Russian President Vladimir Putin was in serious danger of losing his grip on a nation he has led for more than two decades.
Many Russians who had been promised a painless war came to share his frustration, turning the burly, profane Prigozhin into a folk hero. Prigozhin ended his push toward Moscow at the behest of Belorussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, one of Putin’s few allies in Europe. The deal promised Prigozhin safe passage to Belarus; the Wagner fighters who had followed him to Moscow would face no charges for taking part in a mutiny. It appears that other Wagnerites—those who had not joined the uprising—would be integrated into regular army units.Those were highly unusual, and lenient, terms.
Prigozhin’s brazen advance materialized as Ukraine was engaged in a counteroffensive meant to claw back territory taken by Russia in the country’s eastern regions.
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