The Wagner Group leader may be headed for Belarus, but his mercenaries' aborted march on Moscow has undermined the Russian president's authority.
As Putin has thrived off of a strongman image—already dented by a slow, attritional war in Ukraine—experts and commentators have viewed Prigozhin's mutiny as a public attack on the president's grip on power.
"Putin has been diminished for all time by this affair," former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, toldSpeaking on Sky News on Sunday, Christopher Steele, a former British military intelligence officer, said Putin"has lost authority and legitimacy within Russia," despite managing"to worm his way out of it for the present."
He added:"To see events unfold in Russia yesterday and the speed with which the situation seemed to spiral out of control must be very concerning for Putin and the people around him." Around Moscow, checkpoints were erected and troops rushed to the south of the city, according to Russian state media. Crews dug up highways to slow the march, while Sergei Sobyanin, the capital's mayor, declared a"non-working day" and asked residents to stay at home.
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