🧵 “U.S. spy agencies picked up intelligence in mid-June indicating Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin was planning armed action against the Russian defense establishment …& urgently informed the White House & other government agencies so they were not caught off-guard, https://t.co/0N2eg5YEJ9
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 25, 2023
“A key trigger for Prigozhin, officials said, was a June 10 Russian Defense Ministry order that all volunteer detachments would have to sign contracts with the government.
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 25, 2023
“west for Prigozhin’s actions. But several officials said they fully expected that Putin would eventually say the uprising was the result of a foreign plot.”
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) June 25, 2023