(1st UPDATE) Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has held power for more than two decades, has still to comment publicly since the de-escalation of one of the biggest challenges to his rule.
Senior Russian officials rallied around President Vladimir Putin on Monday, June 26, with questions still unanswered about a mutiny by mercenaries that appeared to pose the greatest threat to his grip on power of his 23-year rule.
In another move apparently intended to convey normality, authorities released video showing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. The mutineers had demanded he be sacked, leading to speculation that his removal might have been part of the arrangement that ended the revolt., the boss of Wagner and mutiny leader, last seen on Saturday smiling in the back of an SUV as he left the southern city of Rostov-On-Don, captured by his men before he ordered them to stand down.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the invasion of Ukraine, which Putin calls a “special military operation” to counter threats, was destroying Russia, and the West would continue to back Kyiv. NATO said the events showed the scale of the Kremlin’s strategic mistake in waging war on Ukraine and that the Western defense alliance would not be intimidated into ending its support for Ukraine.
“The world must put pressure on Russia until international order is restored,” Zelenskiy said on Twitter.
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