Putin Backtracks 12 Hours After Saying Prigozhin Would Be Punished

Less than 12 hours after telling the nation that the organizers of an armed rebellion would face justice, Vladimir Putin appears to have had yet another change of heart.

The flip-flopping president looks set to allow Yevgeny Prigozhin to get away with mounting an insurrection on Russian soil—which reportedly killed up to 39 service members—after the FSB announced that it was dropping all charges against Wagner.

Bizarrely, the press service of the FSB said Tuesday that the case had been dropped because investigators determined that those taking part in the armed uprising “stopped the actions directly aimed at committing a crime.”

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