The Wagner group advanced towards Moscow this Saturday after taking the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don under its control, in an armed rebellion that Russian leader Vladimir Putin described as treason and, he assured, will be put down to avoid a new civil war. . However, the Russian private army finally decided to withdraw in order to avoid “a bloodbath”.
The armed rebellion led by Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who claimed his fighters control key military sites in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, posed the biggest challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in more than 23 years. who has been in power and tests the unity of the high command of his Army.
