Ukrainians watched in glee as Russia seemed to implode on itself on Saturday as the mercenary warlord who destroyed swathes of their country turned on tyrant Vladimir Putin and marched on Moscow to depose his military top brass.
A series of dramatic hours followed - but it's unlikely that the insurrection lasted long enough to have any immediate impact on the battlefield.
Early Saturday it emerged that the leader of the Wagner Company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, planned to march on Moscow to depose the Kremlin's military leadership with his band of 25,000 war-hardened and murderous mercenaries in tow.
