'I think he never really considered taking power.' Prigozhin's 11th hour mutiny reversal
realized he had"gone too far" in his rebellion as his troops were barreling toward Moscow, it has been reported.he had seized military facilities in the southern city of Rostov-on-DonAs the mutiny was unfolding, Prigozhin"tried to call Putin" at midday on Saturday, but the president"didn't want to speak with him," the independent Russian language outlet Meduza reported, citing Kremlin sources.
Despite Prigozhin's claims that"half the army" of Russia would join him, his troops got no extra backing from soldiers in the first hours of the uprising, according to Meduza. The outlet's sources said the Wagner founder probably realized"he'd gone too far" and that the"prospects for his column to continue to advance were dim."
"I think he never really considered taking power," Konstantin Sonin, a Russian-born political economist and professor at the University of Chicago, told Newsweek. "Unless they had pledges of allegiance from security forces and army troops, they wouldn't be controlling anything," he told Newsweek.
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