Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, made the announcement minutes after the leader of Belarus announced successful talks with the Wagner boss.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, made the announcement minutes after the leader of Belarus announced successful talks with the Wagner boss.
I’ve seen it suggested that this was staged by Putin to dissuade more earnest coup attempts. However that theory relied on Putin looking like a strong-man at the resolution of this, which doesn’t seem to be the case.
Especially doesn’t look strong when his plane took off in the middle of this whole thing for Valdai, where he has a residence.
Yeah I highly doubt it, any staged coup needs to end with the death of at least one of the coup leaders to help Putin’s image.