U.S. spies learned in mid-June Prigozhin was plotting Russia uprising  —  The intelligence fed concerns about whether Vladimir Putin would remain in power and what any instability could mean for control of Russia's nuclear arsenal  —  U.S. spy agencies picked up intelligence …

Wagner fighters leaving Rostov and Voronezh after aborted mutiny  —  Russia seeks to reassure China, with deputy foreign minister visiting Beijing in unannounced trip.  —  The Russian mercenary group at the center of a short-lived mutiny against President Vladimir Putin proceeded on Sunday …

Putin Is Caught in His Own Trap  —  The Russian president spent years cultivating public apathy, only to find his people indifferent to his fate.  —  The Wagner Group mercenaries marched 800 kilometers across Russia, shot down planes and helicopters, took over a regional military command …

Full Blinken: Russia mutiny is Putin's ‘latest failure’ in Ukraine war  —  The mutiny by Russia's Wagner Group threatens Russian President Vladimir Putin's political standing in his country and the world.  Secretary of State Antony Blinken discusses the implications of Yevgeny Prigozhin's actions …

U.S. Suspected Prigozhin Was Preparing to Take Military Action Against Russia  —  The information was considered both solid and alarming because of the possibility that a major nuclear-armed rival of the United States could descend into chaos.  —  American intelligence officials briefed senior military …

Putin's Weakness Unmasked  —  How Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion exposed the Russian President.  —  In recent years, Vladimir Putin has run much of his Presidency in the most splendid isolation, bunkered away in palaces from the wooded suburbs of Moscow to the shore of the Black Sea.