Vladimir Putin assured this Wednesday that he never doubted the support of the Russian people during the uprising of the Wagner group that confronted him and led him to power through the worst crisis in more than two decades.
“I never doubted the reaction [da população] in Dagestan, not in the whole country,” Putin said during his meeting with the leader of this republic in the Russian Caucasus.
The Kremlin leader made this statement in response to Sergei Melikov, who had stated that “there was not a single person in Dagestan who did not support the decisions of the leaders of the Russian Federation” during the uprising.
An AFP journalist claims to have seen residents of the city of Rostov-on-Don applauding and shouting for the Wagner group as Yevgeny Prigozhin’s troops left the city after canceling the uprising.
The short-lived uprising represented Putin’s biggest challenge since he came to power in Russia on December 31, 1999.
Source: DN
