Putin has said none of Pragozin's troops would be punished too. Putin is a not a man who forgives or forgets. He's got a long track record of punishing people who turn on him. No one has defied him so openly and so aggressively as Pragozin. We don't know where he is right now. And the other things that we don't know is what becomes of Wagner and his army of mercenaries.
Moscow is quiet again after an armed insurrection in Russia over the weekend ended as quickly as it began. But the uprising has left President Vladimir Putin weakened in the eyes of many Kremlin watchers, including US and European officials. Bloomberg’s Flavia Krause-Jackson joins this episode to talk about what this unprecedented threat to Putin’s authority means for his hold on power. And how turmoil inside the Kremlin and at the top of the military could further complicate Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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