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  • Putin doesn’t seem strong after Wagner deal – Rosenberg

    Putin doesn’t seem strong after Wagner deal – Rosenberg

    Vladimir Putin spoke out strongly on national television yesterday, but the BBC’s Russia editor claims that Putin “doesn’t come out of this looking very strong.”

    Speaking from Moscow, Steve Rosenberg says Putin began yesterday by saying Russia had been “stabbed in the back” by the Wagner Group’s attempted mutiny.

    By the end of the day its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whom Putin had labelled a traitor, had all the charges against him dropped.

    “We don’t know all the details of the agreement that was reached between the Kremlin and Wagner,” he tells the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.

    Perhaps more details will emerge in the coming days – but Putin doesn’t look particularly strong after this, Rosenberg reiterates.

  • No room for blackmail and intimidation’ – Putin says

    Before US President Joe Biden’s speech, at the UN General Assembly, Russian president, Vladimir Putin made comments of his own.

    At an event to mark the 1,160th year of Russia’s statehood, he said the country would not lose its sovereignty and would not give in to “blackmail and intimidation”.

    Western officials would likely argue that they have not threatened the sovereignty of Russia, and it is instead Moscow that is endangering Ukraine’s sovereignty.

    Hours after Mr Putin ordered partial mobilization to boost troops in Ukraine, he also lauded the Russian military.

    He claimed it was fighting to save people in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, where Moscow has alleged Russian citizens are being persecuted.

    But Ukraine has forcefully denied the accusations and has aimed to push Russian forces out of its territory.