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Putin’s Power is in Tatters
Prigozhin wins. Putin loses.
The entire world must have been glued to the events that unfolded in Russia over the last 24 hours.
Prigozhin actually ended up doing what he said he would do and ordered his troops to march towards Moscow. The roads were blocked. Armored troops were ordered to patrol the streets of the Russian capital. “Russian security forces feverishly prepared defenses on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, while authorities dug up roads near Lipetsk to try to block the Wagner column”.
It was all happening.
The Wagners had reached Yelets, a Russian city which is five hours from Moscow, before they were ordered to return. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, brokered a peace deal between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Wagner Mercenaries Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The agreement included a pledge from the Kremlin not to prosecute Prigozhin for his armed rebellion, according to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who spoke to reporters late Saturday. In exchange, the Wagner chief halted his troops’ march on Moscow and withdrew fighters occupying key military installations in the south. As part of the deal, Prigozhin, who has spent months on the front lines in Ukraine, would travel to Belarus, Peskov said.
