'If Prigozhin has been forgiven -- as the Kremlin meeting might suggest -- then why is there no public acknowledgement of that, a bid to at the least file down the fangs of stray Wagner fighters?' writes Nick Paton Walsh | Analysis
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s whereabouts have been unclear since he appeared at night in an SUV in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, at the close of his short-lived, yet seismic, mutiny. We have seen affiliated planes criss-crossing Russian and Belarusian airspace; his purported wigs and gold bars; even a man similar to him in a surgical mask getting off a helicopter in St. Petersburg.
The raids on his buildings, the closure of his media outlets, his lack of audio messages, the Kremlin’s complex suggestion of a healing meeting: they all point to a man whose disappearance is more problematic for Putin than it might immediately suggest. The fact we have yet to get visual confirmation of Prigozhin’s fate is a sign of Putin’s weakness – a sign that all the options the Kremlin faces contain drawbacks.
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