Yevgeny Prigozhin met with Vladimir Putin on June 29 at the Kremlin, adding further mystery to the rebellion the Wagner founder had staged only days before,
"The Kremlin is attempting to cover up the obvious—Putin had no idea what was happening and this is a scenario no one in the media was prepared for," Ignashev added.Putin-Prigozhin meeting reveals Kremlin's lingering Wagner problem
Even in a restricted Russian media environment,"the contrast between Putin making an extraordinary national address promising ruthless resistance…only to then acquiesce to a deal brokered by his junior partner Lukashenko, cannot but be lost on a domestic audience," he toldLittle is known about the immunity deal Prigozhin got apart from his exile to Belarus and the dropping of legal action against him and his fighters.
"It seems unlikely that Putin knew of the mutiny plot in advance, let alone that he could have staged the rebellion as a provocation or loyalty test, as there is far too much at stake for the Russian president," he toldRussian aircraft were destroyed, and both Wagner forces and the Russian military suffered casualties.
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