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Putin v Prigozhin: is Wagner too valuable to crush?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When Wagner forces turned their guns against Russian forces it led to panic in Moscow. But after the coup was aborted and its leader accused of treachery, it was business as usual for the group’s lucrative Africa operations. Pjotr Sauer and Jason Burke report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

Today, after the Aborted Co.

0:10.4

what will Vladimir Putin do with the Wagner Group in Africa?

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When Evgeny Prugoshin led an armed march on Moscow last month, there was panic in the capital.

1:26.0

It is nearly 4.30 in the morning in Moscow and as you can see here, troops are

1:31.0

recording off the Kremlin in the presidential administration.

1:33.7

An icy response from Putin, he said it's treason, this is a stab in the back of our troops

1:39.9

and the people of Russia.

1:42.3

And predictions that the Vagna Boss and his mercenary army would not survive.

1:48.4

What we've seen right after the mutiny was a very intense media campaign against Prugoshin

1:53.5

with aim to discredit him.

2:00.4

We've seen images of a raid inside Prugoshin's villa that was done by the Russian security services

2:05.4

and the footage of the raid was shown on Russian state television, of course, on purpose to try to discredit him.

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