This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to researcher Aram Shebanian.

He's going to be talking to us about the situation over the weekend

where the Kremlin paramilitary unit Wagner turned its guns

essentially on the Kremlin they launched a mutiny took their tanks took their

men took their anti-aircraft weapons across the border where they'd been fighting in Ukraine,

and made their way up to Moscow. Russian helicopters and a plane was shot out of the air,

MOD buildings were seized,

and then suddenly everything stopped and turned around.

Strange situation, we're going to be looking into it.

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slash Popular Front. As we know, over the weekend, Wagner, the paramilitary farm backed heavily by Putin and various

dark money resources turned its guns, kind of, on the Kremlin, and then decided, nah, actually, we're

going back. A very weird situation, essentially a 24 hour mutiny from Wagner.

Maybe before we get into the full details of what actually happened, how it developed,

let's go into who Wagner is because I'm

sure there's some people out there that saw this and we're like oh good there's a

there's a kind of mutiny happening and there's there unit is going to stop Putin.

Well actually like Wagner is just scum of the earth like the kind of stuff they've been done.

Let's go into who they're a

are a mercenary organization essentially a private army that works at the behest of

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