The mercenary leader is claiming 'treason' due to top Russian brass depleting his fighters' ammunition.
"[Prigozhin's] gamble is that Putin needs him as a counterweight to the influence of uniformed military and perhaps also the security apparatus," he told."Prigozhin can still be contained by the security services, but that would require Putin's order which has not been forthcoming.
Prigozhin and the Wagner Group"do not pose a significant threat to the stability of the Russian political regime," Troitskiy added.that the ammunition deficit"is real" and that the situation"is very bad for Wagner." However, she said Putin still considers Prigozhin to be a real loyal patriot who stands for the Russian motherland and would die for it—which reinforces the commitment of Prigozhin and his fighters to protect Putin in theory.
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