There's still very little we know about the agreement, which was hammered out in the end by Alexander Lukashenko. By creating a sort of truce between Pragorsian and Putin, he has essentially inserted himself above Putin. One of the biggest choices Putin faces is that if he wants to have any kind of offensive potential in this war again, he's going to have to mobilize another 300, 400,000 men as he did last autumn. The rationale for the war has been brutally and publicly filleted by one of his most effective commanders,. Russians themselves will be looking around asking, do I want to die for the sake of whatpragorsian less than 48 hours ago described as
Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”, leads the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. He had lambasted Russia’s military leaders for months, but the mutiny he began over the weekend lasted less than a day. Nevertheless it is a sharp blow to President Vladimir Putin’s leadership—and may prove to be a boon for Ukraine’s counter-offensive.
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