Putin says that the Wagner mercenary group’s armed revolt is a betrayal and that he will protect Russia.
An ongoing dispute regarding the invasion of Ukraine between the Russian military and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the director of Russia's private Wagner military group, came to a head this past day in the form of an open confrontation. This dispute has been going on for quite some time. Prigozhin accused Russia of targeting his soldiers and appeared to contradict one of President Vladimir Putin's primary grounds for the war. In response, Russian generals accused him of attempting to stage a coup against Putin. Prigozhin's statements appeared to challenge one of Putin's primary justifications for the conflict. Prigozhin (whose name is pronounced…