Ukraine says Wagner’s mutiny proves Putin’s fragility – but this war ends on the battlefield
Officials believe any fear of Putin preventing Western states from delivering key weaponry had been smashed – and that it is crucial Ukraine keep receiving support from allies. Bel Trew reports from Kyiv
The silence is deafening.
On Saturday, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian hotdog-seller turned mercenary, was firing off expletive-riddled voice notes and videos every other hour that were being broadcast across the world.
In them, the chief of Wagner Group, a powerful private military company (PMC), blamed the Russian Ministry of Defence for bombing his troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. He accused them of lying to his country about the motivations for going to war in Ukraine, and he vowed to get revenge.
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