UK intelligence says sacking of Russian general over critical comments likely indicative of wider trend
What we know on day 507 of the invasion
In case you missed it, Vladimir Putin said that he sought and failed to have Yevgeny Prigozhin replaced as the leader of Wagner’s fighters in Ukraine after the mercenary chief rebuffed his proposal during a meeting at the Kremlin this month.
Putin’s version of events, which appeared in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, was a surprise admission that the Russian president was still negotiating a takeover of the Wagner mercenary group.
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