Evening Edition: Was The Wagner Group Uprising A Failure or False Flag?

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

President Vladimir Putin has condemned an apparent uprising by Russia's brutal military force, the Wagner Group, calling it an act of treason but also saying the rebellion would have been easily stopped. The military group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his men, took control of a major southern city in Russia before agreeing to a deal that has apparently sent him to neighboring Belarus and his troops a pass on criminal charges. So, was this just a two day dispute or is there much more to it? FOX's Alex Hogan speaks with Rebekah Koffler, president of ‘Doctrine & Strategy Consulting’, former DIA intelligence officer, and author of ‘Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America’, who says you cannot believe what either Putin or the paramilitary leader Prigozhin has to say about the mutiny. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Abby Hornissette. I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Dana Perino. And this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.2	Monday, June 26th, 2023, I'm Alex Hogan. After a dramatic weekend in Russia,
0:14.0	one security analyst argues it might not have come as such a surprise to the Kremlin.
0:19.3	This was a false flag operation conducted by
0:23.6	Putin and Progorsion and Russian intelligence services.
0:29.1	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
0:36.0	From the Fox News Podcasts Network.
0:38.4	I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor of the transom.com daily newsletter.
0:43.0	And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week. It's the Ben Dominic podcast.
0:47.5	Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.
0:51.4	A mutiny, a coup in armed uprising, it was a dramatic day on Saturday in Russia.
0:56.4	The leader of the Wagner group, Russian mercenaries, turned his soldiers away from the battlefield
1:01.6	in Ukraine and toward Moscow. He gave me pregotion and claimed that Russian forces fired on his.
1:08.0	And he called for the removal of some of the top Russian military brass.
1:12.0	His forces quickly took over the military headquarters and as they neared the capital, it all ended.
1:18.0	Progorsion struck a deal with a president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko,
1:22.1	to call off his order and he would go to Belarus.
1:25.9	The whole day causing a lot of uncertainty around the continent.
1:28.9	Here's National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, today.
1:32.6	There's a lot of reasons to be concerned about stability in Russia and the impact that
1:35.9	that could have on the Ukrainian people and on the European continent.
1:39.5	Well, what could have become an uprising ended almost as quickly as it started.
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