LIVE: The crisis appears to have been defused after the head of the Wagner force agreed to halt the march on Moscow to avoid shedding Russian blood.
While Wagner instigated the coup, it appears as if the only possible fatalities were Russian military ones.
Additionally, Russian forces bombed a fuel depot in Russia’s Voronezh region which took 100 firefighters and 30 units of equipment to work to put it out, Alexander Gusev.Russia has the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons, a hangover from its Soviet days when its arsenal of nuclear bombs reached 40,000.
“The IC will be super-focused on the nuclear stockpile,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA officer who oversaw the agency’s clandestine operations in Europe and Eurasia. The scenario worrying planners now may be the possibility of a rogue military faction gaining decision-making ability over some of the weapons should divisions over the war in Ukraine exposed by Prigozhin’s mutiny erupt anew.
News aggregator Google News was blocked beginning on Friday night by Rostelecom, Russia’s largest digital provider, and at least four other major internet service providers, according to the non-profit group NetBlocks, which monitors internet censorship. Google News was available only about half the time on Moscow’s city telephone service, MegaFon, NetBlocks said.
Prigozhin had earlier agreed to end a rebellion against Moscow’s military leadership after mediation from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and the Kremlin said he would be moving to Belarus under the deal they had agreed.And how have the developments over the past 24 hours gone down among Ukrainian leaders?
Gould-Davies says Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is Putin’s creature and creation, having enjoyed the president’s patronage since his time as a caterer, is an internal enemy and internal instability undermines the core justification of Putin’s rule which is “to bring stability and security to Russia after the chaotic 1990s”.
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