Opinion: Prigozhin's March on Moscow
How to understand Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow and its sudden end? Often there are plots without a coup; this seemed like a coup without a plot, Timothy Ash writes.
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How to understand Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow and its sudden end? Often there are plots without a coup; this seemed like a coup without a plot, Timothy Ash writes.
Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister whose feud with the Wagner group of mercenaries triggered their march on Moscow, was once tipped to succeed Vladimir
The Russian Defence Minister is currently trapped in a bitter feud with Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigohzin and is said to have a few skeletons in the closet.
As rebel tanks trundled up the highway towards Moscow yesterday morning, Vladimir Putin labelled the mutinous mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin a ‘traitor’ – and vowed to crush him. But hours later Putin capitulated, allowing Prigozhin to retire to an honourable exile in Belarus and pardoning the 25,000-strong Wagner force which had spent the day in
Sergei Shoigu, Russia's long-serving defense minister, has been the victim of the Russian military's failures. His biggest critic is Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, who in a series of harsh comments in recent months has called ShoigU and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, "scum" who "will burn in hell" The Wagner Group leader has requested the extradition of Shoigsu and Gerasimos to Wagner.