Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing the greatest threat to his authority in two decades after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group and Putin’s former ally, launched an apparent insurrection
Wagner has claimed control of several military facilities and has dispatched some of his troops towards Moscow, demanding Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia’s top general Valery Gerasimov do not meet with Prigozhin. Prigozhin has been highly critical of Russia’s military leadership and their handling of the war in Ukraine, but he had always stopped short of criticizing Putin directly. That seems to have changed on Saturday.
But it appears that Prigozhin had now turned not merely against the military leadership’s handling of the invasion of Ukraine, but also against the longtime Russian leader and his strategy. On Friday, he said Moscow invaded Ukraine under false pretenses devised by the Russian Ministry of Defense, and that Russia is actually losing ground on the battlefield. “When we were told that we were at war with Ukraine, we went and fought.
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