Source: Antiwar.com
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert commentary.
To the West, the event was an attempted coup that revealed the cracks in the Russian government and military that left Putin badly weakened. Others say it was not really an attempted coup at all and that a still calm Putin quickly and decisively ended the crisis with little bloodshed.
It is impossible to say at this stage, before a lot more information becomes known, what really happened. There are at least four possible theories, and probably many more….