The love between eccentric Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladmir Putin has finally cooled, says the renowned American think tank ‘Institute for the Study of War’. Putin is tired of criticism and arrogance. Moreover, Wagner’s promised victory in Bachmoet does not materialize. High-level quarrel or is there a strategy behind it? And what does it mean for the war? “Putin wants to teach Prigozhin a lesson,” says professor of international politics David Criekemans (UAntwerp).
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ANALYSIS. Battle between Putin and Wagner group reached "boiling point": how will this end?
