Vladimir Putin has come out from the failed Wagner rebellion in Russia “weakened”, according to former head of the British Army Lord Dannatt.
“He looked like a man pretty much caught in the headlights,” he told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.
“I think whichever way you look at it he is now a weakened man, and what Prigozhin’s extraordinary sort of march for justice toward Moscow showed, was that Putin’s got very little support.”
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