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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant

Wagner mutiny: how the world reacted

Vladimir Putin on Saturday said an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries was a ‘stab in the back’.
Vladimir Putin on Saturday said an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries was a ‘stab in the back’. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images

As Vladimir Putin responded with ire and defiance to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising, later halted by the Wagner chief to avoid “Russian bloodshed”, world leaders closely watched the biggest challenge yet to the Russian president’s decades-spanning rule.

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