Since the Prigozhin mutiny, confusion reigns at the top of the Russian state and among the population: the head of Wagner, sometimes accused, sometimes pardoned, negotiating with Putin, keeping his money and leaving for Belarus to reconstitute his private army; the number three in the Russian military hierarchy, General Sourovikine, missing for a month; the Federal Protection Service (Putin’s bodyguard) equipping itself with heavy weapons, while the Ukrainians sow panic in Crimea.
