His seeming immunity so far also suggests support from within the Russian forces and security services. He has a canny knack for playing the public information and PR game and has been reported back in Moscow negotiating the handover of heavy weapons, removing his organisation’s cash and assets, and talking to military commanders. Meanwhile Prigozhin’s mutiny may be over but for him the show goes on, for now at least. It appears that the authorities are trying to weed out military personnel deemed to have shown ‘a lack of decisiveness’ in putting down the mutiny amid reports that the Russian armed forces did little to stop Wagner fighters in the initial stage of the rebellion. Rybar, an influential channel on the Telegram messaging application run by a former Russian defence ministry press officer, said a purge was underway. So, Surovikin, Gerasimov, and other senior officers are now, according to Russian military commentators, being questioned by the FSB security service to verify their loyalty.
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