CNN: Exclusive: Zelensky calls Putin ‘weak’ and says Russian President’s power is ‘crumbling’
Vladimir Putin’s response to the armed Wagner rebellion was “weak” and the Russian President is losing control of his own people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an exclusive interview.
Putin faced the greatest threat to his authority in two decades last month when the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched a short-lived uprising, claiming control of military facilities in two Russian cities and marching toward Moscow before he agreed to stand down. “We see Putin’s reaction.
It’s weak,” Zelensky told CNN’s Erin Burnett in Odesa, in an interview taped on Sunday.
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