Analysis | Wagner Group rebellion in Russia: Aborted mutiny busts the myth that Putin is infallible – By Deborah Haynes (Sky News) / June 25, 2023
It’s far too soon to be writing the Russian leader’s political obituary – and the fact the rebellion fizzled out almost doesn’t matter – the key is that it happened at all in a country where disorder is forbidden.
As mutinies go, the march by mercenaries on Moscow was anticlimactic, but history will likely remember 24 June as the moment Vladimir Putin’s grip on power started to slip.
The Russian president, looking rattled, was forced to give a televised statement to rage against what he called an act of treason and threaten dire punishment to the perpetrators.
But the Kremlin then cut some kind of deal with the head of the Wagner private army as his men were barely 100 miles from the gates of Moscow.
