A measure of calm returned to Russia on Sunday along with an air of uncertainty after President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine boomeranged back home with armed mutiny and a brief threat of civil war.
of Russia. Earlier this month, Moscow said it stationed tactical nuclear weapons on its soil.
But the rebellion also posed the greatest threat to Putin since he assumed power in Russia more than two decades ago. The Russian leader himself was invisible on Sunday, as were Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Both men were key targets of Prigozhin, whose stated aim was to oust them from office and “punish” them.
World leaders struggled to assess the meaning and potential impact of Prigozhin’s rebellion on the course of the war, and how — if at all — Ukraine’s military had attempted to take advantage of Saturday’s chaotic episode within Russia’s borders.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking in Russian during his nightly address, said, “The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. I am sure that he is no longer in Moscow.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister met with the Chinese foreign minister in Beijing on Sunday. Russia’s Andrey Rudenko and China’s Qin Gang exchanged views on “international and regional issues of common concern,” according to a briefInside Russia, Prigozhin’s mutiny rattled the most ardent supporters of the war and appeared to cheer those whose dissent has been brutally stifled.
Igor Girkin, a former Russian commander in Ukraine who has been convicted of murder in a court in The Hague over the downing of flight MH17 in Ukraine in 2014, condemned both sides. A longtime fierce Shoigu critic, he has also been at loggerheads with Prigozhin.“Of course, I understand — that I am a toxic product of past eras,” he wrote on Telegram on Sunday, expressing nostalgia for a time when “there was no such vile farce.
The Wagner Group is a state-backed paramilitary and private commercial enterprise whose hired guns havein countries such as Syria, Libya, and the Central African Republic.
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