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Nicholas Cecil

Putin giving Russian National Guard heavy weaponry to ‘ensure regime security’ after Wagner mutiny, says UK

Vladimir Putin is supplying the RussianNational Guard with heavy weaponry to “ensure regime security” after the Wagner Group mutiny, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday.

They believe it is being better equipped to deal with “internal security threats” after it was seen to have failed to intervene against the aborted revolt led by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

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