Officials expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to exact 'retribution' for his former caterer's mutiny attempt.
"For a lot of Russians watching this, used to this image of Putin as the arbiter of order, the question was, 'Does the emperor have no clothes?' Or at least, 'Why is it taking so long for him to get dressed?'" CIA Director William Burns said Thursday."And for the elite, I think what it resurrected was some deeper questions…about Putin's judgment, about his relative detachment from events and about his indecisiveness.
"In my experience, Putin is the ultimate apostle of payback. So I would be surprised if Prigozhin escapes further retribution for this," Burns, a former ambassador to Russia, said Thursday."If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn't fire my food taster," he said, echoing similar remarks made previously by President Biden.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan later said the aftermath of the assault was still"unsettled and uncertain," but that Prigozhin's actions were an illustration of frustration with the course of the war in Ukraine. Burns said Prigozhin had"moved around" between Belarus and Russia in the weeks following his 24-hour assault, during which he and a cohort of Wagner troops claimed to have seized military headquarters in Rostov before coming within 125 miles of Moscow. brokered by Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko, Prigozhin announced he and his troops would turn back. Last week the Kremlin revealed that Putin later met with Prigozhin and Wagner commanders and exacted loyalty pledges from them.
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