Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that the leaders of the Wagner rebellion knew they would have failed in their mutiny and would have faced dire consequences had they not halted their advance on Moscow, in Putin’s first public comments since the “march” for justice by the mercenary group ended in an uncertain truce on June 24.
Putin’s remarks on June 26 were his first since a fiery speech several days ago while the apparent rebellion was still playing out and in which the Russian leader called the Wagner chief’s actions a “stab in the back” and pledged to crush what he described as a “rebellion.”
