![]() "So, something tells me that what happened yesterday is probably just the beginning of a larger self-destruction of this empire of evil, and of course what makes Russia weaker, makes us stronger and brings our victory closer." ![]() ![]() Yuriy Sak, an adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister, said: "We were always saying that Russia as an empire built on lies will sooner or later implode. In a series of audio and video messages posted on social media, he went further, implicitly attacking Putin for the first time, by accusing Moscow of lying about their justification for the entire Ukraine war. The Wagner chief accused them of incompetence over the war effort and claimed their soldiers had killed his men in Ukraine even though they are meant to be on the same side. Prigozhin's outburst was the climax of a long-running feud with Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, and General Valery Gerasimov, the head of the armed forces. Yet it still "shows how fragile Russia is and at any moment it could collapse, so yes, I think that this makes us closer to our victory". ![]() However, with the coup now over, "there will be no big changes on the battlefield in the very short term", said Oleksiy Goncharenko. ![]() Had the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner private army lasted more than one day it may even have forced Putin to abandon his war in Ukraine to battle an insurrection at home, according to one senior Ukrainian MP. They noted that the rebellion itself, by the head of a mercenary group, was actually a by-product of President Vladimir Putin’s bungled decision to invade in the first place - the ultimate unintended consequence of an operation that was meant to make him stronger. A sudden uprising in Russia was over too fast to have any immediate impact on the war in Ukraine, but it exposed a fragility in Moscow that Kyiv will seek to exploit, experts have said, writes Sky's security and defence editor Deborah Haynes. ![]()
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