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The Prigozhin-Wagner mutiny of 23-24 June failed. Nevertheless, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries only 2,500 to 5,000 troops in total managed to overrun two major southern Russian cities and get to within 200km of Moscow before a deal was struck and Wagner returned to their bases. Putin felt obliged to come to terms with the rebels. Prigozhin is an advocate of a harsher Russian war in Ukraine and his rebels were demanding the Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the head of the army, Valery Gerasimov, be removed for incompetently prosecuting Russia’s war.
The plant is near a compressor station where the Nord Stream 1 pipeline begins. Some experts have concluded that Russia is deliberately burning away the gas to deprive Europe.