Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010. - Kremlin-linked businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has filed a lawsuit in an EU court to remove him from the bloc's sanctions list, his company said on December 15, 2020. The European Union in October sanctioned Prigozhin -- nicknamed "Putin's chef" because his company Concord has catered for the Kremlin -- accusing him of undermining peace in Libya by supporting the Wagner Group private military company. (Photo by Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by ALEXEY DRUZHININ/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
WAGNER BOSS BACKS DOWN AFTER CHALLENGE TO PUTIN
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, is expected to go to Belarus under a deal brokered by the Belarusian president, putting an end to a shocking, albeit short-lived, challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority. Prigozhin will not be prosecuted, a Kremlin spokesman said, adding that Wagner forces who did not join what Putin called a “rebellion” would be absorbed into the Russian Defense Ministry reports Washington Post
On Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that the insurrection showed “cracks in the facade” of Putin’s leadership. He said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “It’s too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go. I suspect that this is a moving picture, and we haven’t seen the last act yet.
