The Russian leader will want to undercut Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin while retaining the organization's paramilitaries.
Gavriil Grigorov / AP fileLast month’s mutiny in Russia damaged President Vladimir Putin’s carefully crafted image as a strong ruler, and he is likely to seek retribution against the man who led the rebellion, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday.
For Moscow’s elite, the episode resurrected questions that have emerged since the invasion of Ukraine “about Putin’s judgment, about his relative detachment from events and about his indecisiveness.” Now, Putin is waiting, “trying to buy time as he considers what to do with Wagner and what to do with Prigozhin himself. Putin hates, in my experience, any way the image that he’s overreacting,” Burns said. “He’s trying to settle things.”
But as “the ultimate apostle of payback,” Putin will almost certainly go after Prigozhin when the time is ripe, said Burns, a former career diplomat and ambassador to Russia. “He’s moved around a bit. I think he’s been in Minsk lately. I’m not sure he has any plans to retire in the suburbs of Minsk. But he spent time in Russia, as well,” Burns said.
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