Exclusive: Putin 'Fled Moscow' During Prigozhin's Mutiny
Posted on AllSides July 5th, 2023
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Russian President Vladimir Putin fled Moscow during a mutiny led by Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Newsweek has been told.
Self-exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man before he fell foul of Putin, said he was monitoring the movements of the Russian president during Prigozhin's short-lived rebellion on June 24.
He said he learned from one of his contacts that Putin left Moscow by plane during the failed coup, and most likely went to his residence in Valdai in between Russia's Tver and Novgorod regions, located some 250...
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