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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group has “largely fallen silent” following the failed coup in June as Vladimir Putin has change into “unusually outstanding,” the UK ministry of defence has stated.
The insurgent military’s troops had been hurtling in direction of Moscow in an tried mutiny, however the coup was known as off on the eleventh hour by the mercenary group chief.
Since then, Wagner has gone quiet whereas Kremlin has scrambled to redirect the narrative in Putin’s favour after Russian media was initially “not ready” for the mutiny.
The defence intelligence stated: “After the rebellion was defused, Russian state retailers sought to ‘right’ claims that safety forces had been passive.
“Narratives promoted the concept President Vladimir Putin had triumphed by thwarting the rebellion, whereas avoiding bloodshed, and sought to unite the nation behind the president.
“Almost every week later, the state began to minimize the importance of Wagner proprietor Yevgeny Prigozhin and the mutiny, whereas tarnishing his character.”
Elsewhere, Rishi Sunak made clear on Saturday that Britain “discourages” the usage of cluster munitions after Joe Biden agreed to ship the bombs to Ukraine to help the struggle in opposition to Russia.
