The Wagner Revolt Leaves Losers Worldwide
Commentary
A suspect deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin ended the short-lived but stunning Wagner Revolt.
Revolt it was. The Wagner force took Rostov, a major city and the site of the Russian Army’s headquarters for the Ukraine War. A Wagner flying column with tanks and mechanized infantry rolled toward Moscow. Wagner forces fought at least two heavy skirmishes with Russian Army units and shot down a half-dozen helicopters and a couple of fixed-wing aircraft. That’s real combat, not a Potemkin faux-revolt.
Putin angrily called Prigozhin a traitor. Prigozhin clearly launched an attack on the Russian state….