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I'm Tyler Faggett and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker.

On June 23rd, tanks rolled into Moscow and the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and troops surrounded

military and government buildings. These were fighters from the Wagner Group, a private military battalion.

The group's leader is Yevgeny Progogsin, who used to run a restaurant on a boat where Vladimir

Putin liked to dine.

Now he was initiating the strongest challenge to the Kremlin since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Joshua Yoffa began reporting on the Wagner Group, months before their attempted coup.

In a recent story for the New Yorker, he documented how the mercenaries went from

fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to staging an armed mutiny against Vladimir Putin himself.

The story lays bare the surprising vulnerabilities in Putin's regime. And it's also just a stunning

piece of journalism. The magazine's editor, David Remnick, recently said that never before in Putin's 24 years of power has he read an investigation of Kremlin politics as astonishing or as revealing as this one.

Hi, Josh. Thank you so much for being here.

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