When Yevgeny Prigozhin angrily vowed Friday evening that he and thousands of his Wagner fighters were going to march into Russia to take aim at what he sees as the country’s incompetent and corrupt military leadership, the Kremlin called the act mutiny and threatened to imprison him for 20 years.
But 24 hours later, when a Wagner convoy was just 200 kilometres from the capital, there was an abrupt about-face.
It appeared that the country had avoided a potential coup — and Prigozhin, a Russian prison.
He waved to a small crowd of supporters as he was driven in a black van in Rostov-on-Don, a city
