From rebellion to about-face, how the Wagner group swayed Putin’s power

2023-06-25 02:05:20

Bluff, pressure, madness or simply coup d’etat? Two hundred kilometers from Moscow, Evgueni Prigojine, the powerful boss of the paramilitary militia Wagner suddenly ordered this Saturday, June 24, at the end of the afternoon, his troops to return to their camps. An incomprehensible scenario, from start to finish, which plunges Russia into perplexity, even instability.