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In his first address since a group of rebellious mercenaries marched toward Moscow over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country had united in opposition to the uprising.
In a brief five-minute speech, Putin seemed to reaffirm a deal he agreed on to end the conflict, which resulted in Wagner Group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin being exiled to Belarus.
Though Putin didn’t reference Prigozhin by name, he denounced the organizer of the uprising as a traitor.
Prigozhin, nicknamed «Putin’s chef,» runs the mercenary group that has been critical to some of Russia’s battlefield successes in Ukraine and elsewhere.
