he wasn t critical publicly of the president, of vladimir putin. and some people thought for a long time that his criticism of the military leadership was supported, to an extent, privately, by vladimir putin. and that criticising, by criticising senior military officials, well, president putin quite liked that. i thought that was a possibility, until those dramatic events of two months ago exactly when mr prigozhin launched what he called the march ofjustice and called the march ofjustice and called on his troops to march within, to read the country of the current military leadership, and that s when we side the wagner troops march into the city of rostov in southern russia and quite easily take over the city, certainly take over the key military installations