Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary who led a mutiny in Russia, was thought to be in exile in Belarus. However, when NBC News went to the Presidential Palace in the capital Minsk, President Lukashenko said that Prigozhin is still in Russia. NBC News’ Keir Simmons has more details.
Whole lotta WTF. But I’m thinking, if this guy with his own private army was vanquished so easily…there was a rumor his family was threatened.
He wanted to capture shoigu and didn’t manage to do it. Probably failed to garner as much support as he thought he would and had to call it off.
You don’t plan a coup for 9 months and not secure your family, common