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is the only other county recently to create a large private army to fight its wars – and with similarly disastrous results – as became clear when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces staged an uprising in Khartoum on 15 April against the Sudanese Armed Forces. Fighting is continuing but the Sudanese state has totally collapsed, with little chance of it being revived any time soon.
What impact will the mutiny have on the war in Ukraine? The extent of the uprising is still unclear, but the Kremlin was evidently unable to foresee or prevent it. Going by his address to the nation, Mr Putin knows full well what is at stake, saying that it was “a stab in the back” just as Russia was fighting “the toughest battle for its future” in Ukraine and “the entire military, economic and information machine of the West is [waging war] against us.
Mr Prigozhin’s diatribes against Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, both of whom he is seeking to oust, throw a revealing light on the conduct of the so-called ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Prigozhin’s criticisms are directed at Shoigu and Gerasimov, but it is Putin who has kept them in place despite repeated debacles and defeats.
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