Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been warned by a former CIA director to ‘be careful around open windows’ after he failed an attempted coup over the weekend.
On Saturday the mercenary warlord turned on his former ally Putin and marched on Russia’s capital Moscow in what experts say was an attempted coup.
Wagner mercenaries left Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city and rolled troops for hundreds of miles toward Moscow.
A series of dramatic hours followed but after less than 24 hours, they turned around.
Although he is not currently facing any criminal charges for the extraordinary threat to Putin’s regime, former CIA director General David Petraeus says his life is likely in danger.
David told the Times: ‘Prigozhin kept his life but lost his Wagner Group and he should be very careful around open windows in his new surroundings in Belarus, where he’s going.’
Another source told the paper: ‘This could be Chapter One of something new. We have to watch, wait and see what comes next.’
And according to Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, Prigozhin is a ‘dead man walking.’
A feud between Prigozhin and Russia’s top military brass had been bubbling throughout the war in Ukraine but erupted into a mutiny over the weekend.
