2023-06-27 06:00:00
US President Joe Biden and members of his government initially did not want to give an assessment of what the less than 24-hour long revolt by the Wagner Group might mean for its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine or Russia itself. Biden only said that the effects of the events of the past weekend and the consequences with regard to Russia and Ukraine will continue to be examined. It is still too early to make a definitive conclusion regarding “where this is going”.
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group sit on a tank in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don they have occupied. (June 24, 2024)
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The West is making efforts to consciously refrain from commenting on the Wagner uprising, which observers have classified as the greatest threat to Putin in his more than 20-year rule in Russia. The background to this is concern among the United States and its allies that the Kremlin chief might use allegations of Western involvement in the mercenary revolt to solicit support from his compatriots.
On Monday evening, in his first public appearance since the Wagner uprising, Putin declared that “Russia’s enemies” had hoped to divide and weaken his country as a result. But they had “miscalculated”. The “enemies of Russia” are “the neo-Nazis in Kiev, their Western supporters and other national traitors”.
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