Global evaluations of Prigozhin’s Saturday rebellion.
25.06.2023
The front pages of almost the entire world media on Sunday are devoted to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion. The Wagner PMC founder announced the “March of Justice” against the military leadership of Russia. The armed campaign against Moscow did not last even a day, but many newspapers wrote about the “humiliation” of the Russian president.
These are the covers that the world media published the day after the rebellion.
Sunday Express
“Russia was on the brink of civil war last night after a disgraced head of a private military company rioted,” writes the British newspaper The Sunday Express. The headline dedicated to Prigozhin shares the front page with the announcement of an article about Kate Middleton, who was called to a tennis match by Roger Federer.
The Sunday Telegraph
The entire front page of The Sunday Telegraph is about how Wagner mercenaries stopped the march on Moscow after Prigozhin made a deal with Putin. One of the articles reads that the Russian president avoided 1917, but his position was “seriously weakened.” The other article reads that Rostov-on-Don woke up “at the forefront of the historical moment”.
The Sun
According to the British tabloid The Sun, Putin himself was “on the brink”, having “suffered humiliation” from the mercenaries approaching Moscow and he was “clinging to power” all night long.
The Sunday Time
The Sunday Times also writes that the rebels “humiliated” Putin. They stressed that although their leader Prigozhin was exiled to Belarus and managed to escape punishment.
The Observer
The Observer also mentioned Prigozhin’s decision to withdraw his troops from Moscow “to stop bloodshed”, and about the negotiations with Lukashenka’s participation. “Wagner group mutiny leaves Putin at his weakest point,” reads another headline. “Putin’s cultivated domestic aura of omniscience already tarnished and fading fast,” the article reads.
The Mail
The Mail cites the opinion of some UK security sources, who are wondering: “Did Putin bribe Prigozhin to quit Russia?”
Sunday Mirror
Sunday Mirror claims Putin is not only “on the brink” but also “horrified” by “an armed mercenary uprising.”
Daily Star
The tabloid Daily Star considers both Putin and Prigozhin equally “crazy” and hints that soon “there will be a new president” in Russia.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post noted that it was a “short-lived revolt” in Russia, and showed a map with the route of movement of the Wagnerites – from Rostov to Yelets, where Prigozhin ordered his troops to go back.
Le Parisien
The French Le Parisien considers the coup attempt in Russia a “confusion”.
Bild
Bild, in turn, speculates what “rebellion against Putin” could mean for Germany.
Tagesspiegel
“Dramatic struggle for power in Russia. Wagner soldiers are moving on Moscow,” reads the headline of the German Tagesspiegel.
Corriere della Sera
The Italian Corriere della Sera writes about the “challenging Putin” and “chaos in Russia”. “Wagner forces are a few hours from Moscow, then Lukashenka’s mediation blocks everything. The leader of the rebels will leave for Belarus, the fighters involved in this will not be judged. But the image of the ruler has changed forever,” the article reads.
La Repubblica
La Repubblica writes about the “weakness of Tsar Putin” and that Russia was on the brink of civil war for a whole day.
La Stampa
Sunday’s issue of La Stampa was apparently typed up and sent to print even before Lukashenka, Prigozhin and Peskov announced the settlement of the conflict. On the front page, they loudly declare the “revolution in Russia” and the “brink of no return for Putin”, drawing a parallel with 1917 events.
El Mundo
The Spanish El Mundo wrote that the Wagnerite rebellion “shattered Putin’s power”. There is even speculation that Prigozhin might have started something like Operation Valkyrie (the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler by a group of German officers at the end of World War II).
As the Charter97.org website reported, the leader of the Wagnerites, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the start of a military coup. On June 24, Wagner troops took Rostov-on-Don and marched through the Rostov, Voronezh and Lipetsk regions of the Russian Federation. Wagner troops with armored vehicles entered the Moscow region and approached a distance of 200 km to Moscow, after which Prigozhin ordered a retreat. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Prigozhin had been acquitted of a criminal charge of rebellion and would live in Belarus.
Putin being humiliated will probably sign Prickozhin’s death sentence. Putler is a vindictive nasty piece of shit, so I doubt Prickozhin has much longer to pollute this planet.
Certainly Prickozhin knew this before he surrendered?! I wonder if we will ever hear, from the horse’s mouth, why he gave up, despite being so close to cornering the evil rat.
Killing Prigo could end the ‘ceasefire’. I guess that’s why the Wagners are still in Rostov. This fight may not be over yet.
Perhaps not Mike, I think it depends upon how many wagners there are and how they feel about things.
The main force of cannon fodder are too drunk or drugged to think, they just blindly follow the leaders who might want to think twice about continuing any rebellion should priggo meet some grisly end.
There I was thinking we would be booking tickets on Monday, but the revolution failed, as so many do, pricksucker is a dead man, putler will continue, albeit with a vastly reduced rabble of thugs.
The war isn’t going to be over this weekend after all.
I wonder what the Chief Goat fucker will do now, will he send some special force tiktokers to knock off pricksucker, film it, rape a Goat or two, then put it on tiktok in time for next weekend?
putler still has the murderous thugs who command the Armed farces to prop him up, so providing they don’t see a drop in embezzled income it is in their interests to keep him in power and keep the flow of cannon fodder going.
The headline here seems just a little misleading, “putin clings to power,” suggests he’s still in control. All the same, I am happy to see so many other headlines mocking him.
Maybe you’re already familiar with this in American slang, but putin’s name sounds to me, similar to the coarse expression of a fart noise. lol 😂
Ha,ha,ha!
Well, as far as we know, the rat still does cling on to power. Pun intended (Klingon). 😁
Hmm. Maybe this is because I don’t trust the larger news media reporting companies, but I haven’t yet seen any reports about the orc lord returning to moscow. The only status I heard about what his situation was yesterday here, and that was about his plane’s “disappearance.”
I’m sure that this has upset many a complacent, or collaborative russian, and amused many of putin’s enemies. Well, amused though I am, I can amuse myself again with drinking a toast to the weakening of russia. Maybe the Belgorod Russians will gain more rebels to their side, as putin shows how pathetic he is. I feel like I can definitely respect those guys more than wagner.
That’s a good point, Mac. At least, I hope that the free Russians will gain more volunteers in mafia land as a result of this affair.
“The only status I heard about what his situation was yesterday here, and that was about his plane’s “disappearance.””
From what I gleaned from yahoo news, two of pukin’s aircraft left muscow and dropped off radar over Tver otw to St. Petersburg. One supposedly ended up in Valdai, unknown if the runt was on it.
This article says he returned:
https://ukrainetoday.org/2023/06/25/coup-in-russia-putin-returned-by-plane-with-the-red-button-to-moscow-photo/