The mercenery leader who led an uprising in Russia at the weekend is holed up in a windowless hotel room in Minsk in an apparent bid to avoid assassination, according to a US intelligence chief.
Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to crush what he called a “treasonous mutiny” after Yevgeny Prigozhin said his Wagner Group fighters had taken control of the southern city of Rostov and were heading to Moscow on a “march for justice”, intended to remove corrupt and incompetent Russian commanders.
