However events unfold in the insurrection among Russian military forces, Ukraine stands to gain. The Ukrainian military also urged Russia to withdraw its forces as the country appeared headed toward battles between rival forces. While Kyiv’s forces clung to its western edge this spring, tensions between Prigozhin and Russian military officials burst into the open. Soon after the Russian military took over, it lost ground that Wagner had taken on the city’s flanks. Phillips O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, said that regardless of whether Prigozhin’s rebellion succeeds, the Russian military will be weaker.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 25, 2023 11:30 UTC