After Putin dropped charges on the Wagner mercenaries just hours after accusing them of ‘treason’, his strongman image has been shattered. A former US ambassador to Ukraine said he 'has been diminished for all time by this affair'
Vladimir Putin’s strongman image has been shattered by the humiliating climbdown he took to defuse a potential ‘civil war’ this weekend.
As tanks rolled through Rostov-on-Don on Saturday morning, Putin gave an emergency speech pledging ‘decisive action’ to stop a repeat of 1917 – when an attempted coup sparked a revolution against the Tsar and years of bloody infighting. Christopher Steele told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme: ‘To see events unfold in Russia yesterday and the speed with which the situation seemed to spiral out of control must be very concerning for Putin and the people around him.’
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