After Prigozhin’s revolt: How stricken is Putin’s system? | To the Point

For a short Moment, it looked like Vladimir Putin and his Russian empire were beginning to falter. Triggered, not by the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, but by its own mercenaries, the Wagner Group, who usually destabilize regimes in faraway countries. The Ukrainian army is currently trying to harness the momentum generated by this instability for its counteroffensive. But it is a complex operation on several fronts. At the same time, there is growing concern that Putin and the Russian army could escalate further while backed into a corner. And there´s the unresolved matter of what is to be done with the estimated remaining 25,000 Wagner mercenaries from the uprising. So on To The Point we ask: After Prigozhin’s revolt: How stricken is Putin’s system?

Our guests:
Alexey Yusupov, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Nico Lange, Political consultant and security expert
Natalia Smolentceva, DW

00:00 Introduction
01:45 How the Wagner Group seized military headquarters in Russia
02:30 Analyzing the support for the regime
03:00 The mutiny is a bad sign for Putin
5:00 Portrait of Yevgeny Prigozhin
6:40 Is Prigozhin a puppet or acting on his own?
7:30 Prigozhin: a talented entrepreneur, not a military commander
9:30 Prigozhin: Putin’s justification for the war was a lie
10:50 Is loyalty more important than competence in the Russian army?
11:45 Was Prigozhin acting out of fear for his life?
12:20 Putin on the Wagner Group
14:15 Putin now has heavily armed criminals in Russia
17:10 Did the mutiny bring Russia close to a national civil war?
18:00 The Wagner mutiny - A chance for Ukraine’s counteroffensive?
20:15 The Wagner mutiny exposed the Putin regime’s fragility
21:00 Putin has no more means to escalate
21:45 Will the West provide more industrial support for Ukraine’s army?
23:00 A rebranding of the Wagner Group?
23:30 More weapons from the front for the Russian national guard?
24:40 “A Russia without Putin is possible, and we should not be afraid of it”

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