The short-lived rebel by Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin has compelled a more in-depth examination of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maintain on energy. Russia’s political system is “exhibiting its fragilities, and the navy energy is cracking,” the European Union’s international coverage chief, Josep Borrell, stated Monday at a summit of E.U. international ministers in Luxembourg.
Questions stay concerning the whereabouts of Putin and Prigozhin — neither of whom has been seen in public for the reason that episode got here to a detailed — and about the way forward for Prigozhin’s Wagner Group mercenaries.
Right here’s the most recent on the warfare and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Now, following the short-lived rebel, Prigozhin has reportedly agreed to enter exile in Belarus, a dictatorship much more remoted than Russia and sometimes called the North Korea of Europe, Mary Ilyushina studies.
On some ranges, Prigozhin’s most brazen gambit clearly failed — his rebel ended with out the ouster of his archenemies, Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the general commander of the warfare in Ukraine. However he didn’t utterly lose his personal mercenary military, and he appeared to win some acclaim in Russia: After the information of his cope with Putin was introduced, he obtained a celeb send-off as he left the town of Rostov-on-Don, with many locals applauding and speeding to take selfies.