The Russian president remained out of public sight as did Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin, while Russians wondered about what the failed rebellion would mean for the country.
RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s embattled leadership tried to demonstrate control on Monday after the bruising, chaotic mutiny byand his Wagner mercenary group, airing a video of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visiting a command post, while the Kremlin released video of a recorded address by President Vladimir Putin to young engineers.
As a state of emergency in the Russian capital was lifted, Russians were left trying to make sense of Putin’s reversal from his threat of tough action against what he called “treason,” and what it could mean in the near-term, especially for the ongoing war in Ukraine, and longer term for stability in the country and for Putin’s political future.State-owned media, meanwhile, reported on Monday that the insurrection charges against Prigozhin had not yet been rescinded.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the president was “working in the Kremlin” and the two planes returned to Moscow on Sunday evening, Russian news outlet Agentstvo reported. An opinion column in Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote that the “most terrifying scenario” — of fighting in the streets of Moscow and elsewhere and a split in Russia’s military and security forces — had been averted.“Russia displayed its vulnerability to the whole world and to itself.
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