![]() Then he called for an armed rebellion, vowing to topple Russian military leaders. ![]() In a statement yesterday afternoon, he accused the Russian army of killing “an enormous amount” of his mercenaries in a bombing raid on his base. Prigozhin, whose fighters have taken part in brutal conflicts all over Africa and the Middle East-in Syria, Sudan, Libya, the Central African Republic-claims to command 25,000 men in Ukraine. ![]() ![]() The hall of mirrors that Vladimir Putin has built around himself and within his country is so complex, and so multilayered, that on the eve of a genuine insurrection in Russia, I doubt very much if the Russian president himself believed it could be real.Ĭertainly the rest of us still can’t know, less than a day after this mutiny began, the true motives of the key players, and especially not of the central figure, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group. ![]()
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