Secretary of Defense Pistorius sees in that armed uprising of the Wagner mercenary army a Signs of cracks in Putin’s power apparatus. “I think you don’t have to be a Russia expert to realize that a situation that can develop so far in such a short time that it is a clear signal (…) that things are going wrong there and that there are cracks,” said the SPD politician yesterday in Washington. He added that it was not yet possible to assess how deep these cracks were and what consequences they would have for Russia, for the country’s internal stability and for Putin. There is also “no clear, consolidated picture of the situation,” he said.
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