It may also result in Wagner sitting out the rest of the war.Īnd it cost Russia one of its most important special-mission aircraft. It temporarily distracted Russian leaders and disrupted the main supply lines between Russia and Ukraine. Regardless, the mutiny already has benefitted Ukraine. But it’s not yet clear whether that deal includes changes in the military’s leadership - and how those changes might help or hurt Russia’s campaign in Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently cut some sort of deal with Prigozhin to end the mutiny. In rolling his fighters through the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh toward Moscow this weekend, Prigozhin aimed to unseat the Kremlin’s top military leaders, including defense minister Sergei Shoigu. He blamed the Kremlin for wasting his men’s lives. Wagner had lost thousands of fighters in human-wave attacks on Ukrainian positions in the ruins of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region - “stupid meat assaults,” Prigozhin called them. ![]() ![]() The weekend mutiny was the culmination of a long war of words between the official military establishment in Russia and The Wagner Group, easily the most powerful of Russia’s many mercenary firms.
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