The information suggests that US had at least some warning of impending chaos in Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - Senior US national security officials had indications as early as Wednesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, was preparing to take military action against senior Russian defence officials, according to officials briefed on the intelligence.
Although it is not clear exactly when the United States first learned of the plot, intelligence officials conducted briefings on Wednesday with the administration and defence officials. Most of those tensions played out in public, as the leader of the mercenary military group used interviews and Telegram posts to berate Mr Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, calling them incompetent and charging that they misled Mr Putin about the progress of the war with Ukraine.
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