The mutiny led by the Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin dented Putin's authority in Russia, but he's still in charge — and still pursuing his brutal war against Ukraine.
A little more than a week ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power appeared to be disintegrating. Rebel mercenaries were advancing on Moscow against little or no resistance. Wealthy Muscovites scrambled for tickets out of the country. A coup d’etat attempt seemed imminent.
Putin, once seen as an all-powerful autocrat, seemed to have suffered a humiliating blow to his authority.That’s what a growing number of Russia experts said last week as the dust settled and a modicum of perspective set in.“Putin faces a lot of problems, to be sure,” said Stephen Sestanovich, a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University. “But it looks as if he’s still got most of the assets he needs to address them.
Much of what happened in the bizarre standoff with Prigozhin remains murky. The boss of the Wagner Group, a so-called private military company, was rebelling against Putin’s order that he subject his mercenaries to the command of the regular armed forces.The Wall Street Journal has reported that Prigozhin intended to kidnap the Russian defense minister and army chief of staff to press his case.
Once the outcome was clear, officials in Moscow rushed to declare loyalty to Putin. Russia’s military and intelligence services launched investigations to determine what went wrong.the air force commander who is close to Prigozhin, is reportedly being interrogated. “This has been a kind of wake-up heart attack for him,” Sestanovich suggested. “He needs to make everybody feel that they’re still benefiting from his regime — a pretty tough challenge.”has continued unabated. The high-level turmoil in Moscow had no discernible effect on the battlefields to the south.
That suggests that Putin has decided not to disband Wagner, which has not only been more brutal on the battlefield than the regular army, but also more successful at attracting recruits, partly because it pays higher wages.
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