Blinken: 'Prigozhin has challenged Putin's authority'

Blinken believes that Prigozhin has 'directly challenged Putin's authority.' He noted that Prigozhin's actions were 'a direct challenge to Putin's authority' and revealed the regime's 'real cracks.'

'This raises very deep questions, the answers to which will be given in the coming days and weeks,' he added. The U.S. still has no answer to the question of who controls the Russian military, what will happen with the representatives of the Wagner group, and there is no information on the details of the agreement between Putin and Prigozhin.

It should be noted that yesterday the Wagner military group established control in Rostov-on-Don. While talking with Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Evkurov and Deputy Chief of Staff Alexeev at the military headquarters in Rostov, Prigozhin demanded Shoigu and Gerasimov, otherwise promising to move towards Moscow.