The former commander said Wagner’s mutiny had redistributed power among the Russian president’s inner circle.
Russian nationalist military blogger Igor Girkin has said that Vladimir Putin may face a move from within his inner circle to end his invasion of Ukraine which could lead to his removal as president.
Girkin, also known as Strelkov, played a key role in the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region from 2014. He has repeatedly condemned Russia’s military establishment and Putin for how they have conducted the war in Ukraine, which he backs.
In a Telegram post on Wednesday, Girkin said that the mutiny by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in which his troops seized military facilities in Rostov-on-Don and marched on Moscow, had succeeded by redistributing power among the Russian elite.
