The head of the Wagner militia has denied trying to overthrow the Russian government but redoubled his criticism of the country’s defence establishment in his first public comments since Saturday’s abortive march on Moscow.
But Russian president Vladimir Putin, speaking publicly on Monday for the first time since the abortive Wagner uprising, said its organisers had betrayed their country. He called most of the group’s fighters “patriots of Russia” who had been “used” by…
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