According to military experts, Putin was further humiliated because he was unable to stop the Wagner rebellion.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s order to the Russian Ministry of Defense to shoot down PMC Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was nothing more than revenge. Experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said so.
“Putin’s order to the Russian Defense Ministry to shoot down Prigozhin’s plane was allegedly a public attempt to reassert their dominance, as well as revenge for the humiliation Putin and the Russian Defense Ministry suffered in connection with the attempted armed riot of the Wagner group on June 24,” the statement said.
It also notes that at the same time Russian air defenses shot down Prigozhin’s plane, Putin attended a public televised taping of a concert celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk.
“The fact that Putin was present at this time in a televised concert revived the memory of Soviet state television, which showed Swan Lake in August 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed,” ISW said.
As you know, exactly two months have passed since the attempted armed riot of PMC Wagner, in which Wagnerites shot down several Russian helicopters and killed at least 13 Russian servicemen.
ISW said the decision to use Russian air defenses as a means of killing Prigozhin allowed the Russian Defense Ministry to directly avenge what was one of the deadliest days for Russian aviation since the start of a full-scale invasion.
“For Putin, this is more of a shame, because he could not prevent the rebellion of PMC Wagner, relied on Lukashenko to prevent Prigozhin’s demarche, and did not punish the Wagner servicemen who shot down the Russian plane on June 24, ” experts from the Institute for the Study of War said.
Recall that the state television channel Russia 24 reported the death of the leader of the Wagnerites, Yevgeny Prigozhin, as a result of a plane crash that occurred in the Tver region of the Russian Federation.
According to Russian propagandists, the cause of the plane crash, which PMC founder Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been a “terrorist attack”.
Source: korrespondent
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