Two days after an armed rebellion in Russia stopped suddenly on the road to Moscow, observers are watching closely to see how the deal struck between the Kremlin and the mercenary chief who led the revolt plays out.
An ongoing feud between Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia’s military leadership led to a mutiny that saw the former’s mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city. They then rolled for hundreds of kilometres toward Moscow, before turning around Saturday.
Western leaders are taking a wait-and-see approach to the mysterious deal struck between Prigozhin and the Kremlin, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying speculation about an “internal
