EDITORIAL: The Kremlin emperor has no clothes
Africa has to worry about thousands of out-of-job Wagner fighters
28 June 2023 - 05:00
It is probably too soon to conclusively tell how Friday’s aborted mutiny by the Wagner mercenary forces will change the course of Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine. But it is hard to escape the conclusion that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, has been exposed as not invincible after all.
On Friday, thousands of members of Wagner, a militia group led by former convict Yevgeny Prigozhin, pulled out of Ukraine, drove through the town of Rostov-on-Don, a logistics hub for the war, and started making their way towards Moscow. ..
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