Apparently, Priogi and Lukashenko have been talking and Wagner’s turning back from Moscow.

Putin can’t let this go, right? Even if he backs off, Prickozhin openly declared war on the MoD. I don’t see how Putain can just allow a direct challenge to state authority like that to go unpunished, even if it was couched in the typical “good tsar, bad boyars,” conflict avoidance language. And why’s Luka involved?

This whole situation is nuts.