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A week after President Vladimir Putin’s cool reception of President Cyril Ramaphosa for talks on his attendance at the Brics summit in South Africa later this year, any chance that the Russian leader would leave his country disappeared, after an alleged coup and an armed rebellion broke out in Russia.
The Wagner group, Russia’s de facto private military organisation, announced on Friday night on the Telegram messaging service that it would invade Russia and “punish” the country’s military leaders for an alleged missile attack on the mercenaries’ base in Ukraine.
