(NEW YORK) -- This weekend's attempted rebellion by the Wagner Group, a Putin-packed private military company, appeared to show some serious distrust among the Russian government and its military allies. Andrei Kozyrev, a former Russian foreign minister and author of the book "The Firebird: The Elusive Fate of Russian Democracy," spoke…
(NEW YORK) -- The attempted rebellion over the weekend against President Vladimir Putin by the Russia-backed private military company the Wagner Group, run by former Putin confidant Yevgeny Prigozhin, shocked world observers and leaders. Bill Taylor, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, spoke with ABC News' Linsey Davis Monday evening about…
(NEW YORK) -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former oligarch and one of Vladimir Putin's best-known critics, has campaigned for years to end the Russian leader's rule. Over the weekend, as Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellious fighters advanced towards Moscow, Khodorkovsky stood out among Russia's liberal pro-democracy opposition in calling for people…
(WASHINGTON) -- Yevgeny Prigozhin used a false pretext to lead his Wagner Group forces in an armed insurrection against the Russian state, according to a senior U.S. official. Prigozhin had been plotting ways to reverse his fortunes in the face of waning power and came up with a plan to…
(NEW YORK) -- The amount of smoke being emitted from the wildfires burning in Canada has reached the highest-ever recorded in the country as plumes make their way across the Atlantic to Europe. The typical wildfire season in Canada reaches its peak around mid-July, but the first of the hundreds…
(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said he believes "without a doubt" that the brief armed rebellion in Russia over the weekend marks "the beginning of the end" of the war in Ukraine. "It is the beginning of the end, but the problem is this 'end' can last for…
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Monday, in his first public comments addressing the short-lived rebellion that unfolded this weekend against Russian military leaders and threatening the rule of President Vladimir Putin, insisted that the U.S.and its NATO allies were in no way involved. Biden said he directed his national security…
(LONDON) -- A chaotic armed rebellion that threatened the longstanding leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin began Friday and appeared to have been quelled by Saturday evening. The uprising, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the paramilitary Wagner Group, began in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Forces loyal to…
(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the aborted uprising against Russian President Vladimir Putin by a mercenary leader and close ally underscores how Putin's decision to invade Ukraine has sown chaos in his own country, too. "If you put this in context 16 months ago, Putin…
(NEW YORK) -- The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said the Kremlin's justifications for its invasion of Ukraine are based on lies, in another extraordinary attack on the country's military and political leadership. Prigozhin, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a video posted Friday…
