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The march to Moscow by the Russian mercenary Wagner force of thousands came to a dramatic end on Saturday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> suffering severe dents to his armor that dispelled his indomitable image, according to critics.<\/p>\n

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Wagner, who is also known as “Putin\u2019s Butcher,” reportedly came within 120 miles of Moscow before he agreed to a deal to go into exile in Belarus that was brokered by the country\u2019s authoritarian ruler Alexander\u00a0Lukashenko. <\/p>\n

Gary Kasparov, who is a fierce opponent of Putin\u2019s dictatorship, tweeted to his over one million followers<\/a>: “Mafia is as mafia does. Whatever deal was reached today, blood has been spilled and Putin’s illusion of invincibility is gone. He and his cronies tasted real fear. Moscow was threatened.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

WAGNER CHIEF ORDERS TROOPS TO TURN AROUND FROM MOSCOW ‘TO AVOID BLOODSHED’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Rebekah Koffler, former U.S. defense intelligence officer,\u00a0told Fox News Digital, “Putin is perceived by the West as weaker,” following the Wagner threat to his power. However, Koffler, whose expertise is on Putin and Russia, said, “Putin is perceived by many Russian people in Russia, generally, as stronger because he chased away the Wagner traitors who betrayed the president and the nation, and saved the country.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Koffler added that the reality is “Putin is neither stronger nor weaker.\u00a0His hold on power remains the same as before \u2013 strong. He has taken several measures to squeeze his grip on power.” She said Putin has introduced a counterterrorism operation “which augments security measures in Russia. It\u2019s a form of martial law, a legal regime that allows for a number of measures and temporary restrictions.”<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s state of anxiety <\/a>about being toppled has reportedly led to a host of other measures to impede unrest in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Koffler, “Putin was always concerned about popular uprisings and stood up a special branch of service Rosgvardia, National Guard, 340,000 troops with the single purpose of monitoring key indications of an uprising and squashing it. He also stood up the National Center of State Defense, a wartime structure which conducts a 24\/7 monitoring of internal and external threats.”<\/p>\n

In an interview with “Fox and Friends Weekend,” Ukraine born\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Victoria Spartz<\/a>, R-Ind.,\u00a0echoed Kasparov\u2019s criticism, stating, “Russia is a country run by criminals.” Spartz said the friction between Prigozhin and Russia\u2019s minister of defense was already playing out. As a result, “Putin is afraid, you know, that he might <\/strong>have\u00a0these people [Wagner] turn on him.”<\/p>\n

BIDEN ADMIN, FOREIGN OFFICIALS REACT AS WAGNER GROUP MAKES \u2018MARCH FOR JUSTICE\u2019 TOWARDS MOSCOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken<\/a> said, “When you\u2019re being challenged from within, as Putin has been over the last few days, that also raises profound questions. But we\u2019ve seen, I think, lots of different cracks that have emerged in the conduct of this aggression, because everything Putin has tried to accomplish, the opposite has happened. Russia is weaker economically, it\u2019s weaker militarily. It\u2019s standing in the world has plummeted.”<\/p>\n

WAGNER GROUP: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN MERCENARY GROUP IN UKRAINE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War issued a series of tweets<\/a> analyzing the volatility of Russia, noting: “The Kremlin now faces a deeply unstable equilibrium. The Lukashenko-negotiated deal is a short-term fix, not a long-term solution, and Prigozhin\u2019s rebellion exposed severe weaknesses in the Kremlin and Russian MoD [Ministry of Defense].”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russia will remain in state of flux, according to some veteran experts of Russia.<\/p>\n

Alex Grinberg, who was born in Moscow and works as a foreign policy expert for the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy, told Fox News Digital, “No one knows what will happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow because no one in the Russian authorities foresaw such a situation. It was not a revolt but a kind of mutiny. Russia is governed by a mafia.”<\/p>\n

He added, “These people do not act as politicians. They never plan or have a contingency plan. As a result, what is clear is Putin\u2019s authority was seriously shaken.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital sent numerous press queries to\u00a0Russian authorities for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/what-does-putins-standoff-wagner-mercenary-group-mean-russia <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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