Russians were gobsmacked when they turned on their TVs this morning
Tania Krasnova, a single mother of two in Nizhny Novgorod, put her cup of coffee on the table in consternation. Telegram was full of videos of tanks in Moscow, headlines were saying “Wagner Soldiers Have Captured Voronezh” just 300 miles from the capital. “I thought: that was quick, they were in Rostov just a few hours ago.”on the television talking about a “betrayal” and an “armed rebellion” that she realized this was serious. Oh, this is not just some joke, she thought.
Olga, a retired doctor in Saint Petersburg also said it was Putin’s unexpected TV appearance that cut through. It was the words, “Prigozhin stabbed Russia in the back,” that hit home for her. For years, Yevgeny Prigozhin had been one of Putin’s closest allies, operating the notorious Wagner mercenary group, which carried it out the president’s darkest missions. On Saturday, Putin announced to the world that Prigozhin—and 25,000 of his battle-hardened men—had decisively turned on their master.
Then she added seriously. “But I think it is time to fly to Turkey while the airports are still working.”All the Kremlin’s Men Municipal services were working quickly on Saturday to take down advertisements for the Wagner draft—they were all over the billboards in the Voronezh region, an area where the mercenary fighters themselves are now heading towards Moscow.
Local politician Vladimir Khrykov said it was still calm in Nizhny Novgorod. “Our region is quiet, if not for Putin’s speech: people are all concerned about his words. But my sources tell me that they have agreed, Wagner will back off.”
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