--- title: The Failed Wagner Mutiny and Putin’s Uncertain Fate description: Prominent Kremlin critic Bill Browder tells TIME that the incident has "totally destroyed" the Russian President's image. canonical: https://time.com/6290526/wagner-mutiny-bill-browder-interview/ author: Yasmeen Serhan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-06-27T11:39:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T07:24:47.513Z article:section: World og:title: The Failed Wagner Mutiny and Putin’s Uncertain Fate og:description: Kremlin critic Bill Browder tells TIME that the incident has "totally destroyed" the Russian President's image. og:url: https://time.com/6290526/wagner-mutiny-bill-browder-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3cbb7aeb2e06bea/698a3e30929fad1f3fbf9f0a/GettyImages-1258930399.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Putin Marks The Russian Day Of Remembrance And Sorrow og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Failed Wagner Mutiny and Putin’s Uncertain Fate twitter:description: Kremlin critic Bill Browder tells TIME that the incident has "totally destroyed" the Russian President's image. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3cbb7aeb2e06bea/698a3e30929fad1f3fbf9f0a/GettyImages-1258930399.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘The Door Has Now Been Opened for Anyone to Challenge Putin.’ Why the Wagner Group's Rebellion Matters > Sponsored content. 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Russian President Vladimir Putin faced the greatest threat to his authority in decades when the mutinous Wagner Group seized major cities in an armed rebellion against the Russian military on June 24. TIME Senior Correspondent Simon Shuster explains what this insurrection means for Putin's power._  by [Yasmeen Serhan](https://time.com/author/yasmeen-serhan/)  ## Yasmeen Serhan Jun 27, 2023 11:39 AM UTC Russian President Vladimir Putin faced the greatest threat to his authority in decades when the mutinous Wagner Group seized major cities in an armed rebellion against the Russian military on June 24\. TIME Senior Correspondent Simon Shuster explains what this insurrection means for Putin's power.  by [Yasmeen Serhan](https://time.com/author/yasmeen-serhan/)  ## Yasmeen Serhan Jun 27, 2023 11:39 AM UTC When Vladimir Putin delivered a speech just days after surviving [the greatest challenge](https://time.com/6290143/belarus-lukashenko-russia-wagner-group/) to his leadership in 23 years, he sought to strike a defiant tone. The Russian President described the armed convoy of thousands of Russian soldiers led by Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin as a “mutiny” designed to foment domestic turmoil, and its organizers as plotters who “betrayed their country and their people.” But to the surprise of even the most astute Kremlinologists, Putin did not reveal plans for punishment or retribution. Instead, he described the majority of those involved as misled patriots and said that Prigozhin and his men would be free to go into exile in Belarus, Russia’s [vassal state](https://time.com/6290143/belarus-lukashenko-russia-wagner-group/) next door. This is not the traditional Putin playbook, according to the prominent Kremlin critic Bill Browder. He would know better than most. The London-based financier has spent more than a decade exposing corruption and human rights abuses in Russia, culminating in the creation of the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which has enabled the U.S. and other countries to freeze the assets and ban visas of human-rights violators in Russia. Browder has personally faced the ire of Moscow—which declared him a threat to Russian national security in 2005—and he has seen his friends and colleagues jailed and [even killed](https://world.time.com/2013/03/06/the-magnitsky-trial-russia-places-a-dead-man-in-the-dock/) for their activism. Most recently, Browder’s close friend, the prominent Russian dissident and Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony on charges of treason. His real crime: [being the political prisoner Putin fears most](https://time.com/6278309/vladimir-kara-murza-putins-most-reviled-political-prisoner/). **Read More**: [_Vladimir Putin Survived the Wagner Group Rebellion. History Shows That Doesn’t Mean He’s Safe_](https://time.com/6290338/putin-wagner-rebellion-history/) Speaking to TIME by phone, Browder discusses how the failed Wagner mutiny has affected Putin’s image both within and beyond Russia and what the future holds for Russia’s longest-serving leader. ### TIME: Prigozhin was able to get within 124 miles of Moscow before he ultimately decided to turn his forces around. What does this tell us about Putin’s image in Russia before the mutiny began? Was he quite as omnipotent an autocrat as observers believed? Bill Browder: Putin has tried to create this image of a strong man in total control, and there’s really been no way to test that from outside of Russia because [opinion polls are completely meaningless](https://time.com/6208238/why-russian-support-for-the-war-in-ukraine-hasnt-wavered/) and any type of airing of opinions is totally forbidden. So we and many people in Russia have been operating on this false impression that he’s somehow been firmly in control. And then all of a sudden on Saturday, what we see is that a relatively small group of armed marauders were able to cross into Russian territory totally unopposed, go into Rostov (where they were not only unopposed, but people came out on the street to welcome them), and then they took over one of the most important strategic military bases in the country. That just shows that the image that Putin has been trying to project is a complete fraud. As Prigozhin made his way toward Voronezh, the same thing happened there. And then he got on the highway to Moscow. And the only reason why he didn’t complete his journey was that 8,000 men can’t take over a country of 141 million people unless they have co-conspirators, and I believe that he probably thought he did and it was probably pre-arranged and those people got cold feet when the situation escalated to that point. This is a monumental challenge to Putin—something that he hasn’t seen since the days he began his presidency. Unless he’s able to reinsert the impression that he’s this ruthless strongman, he will lose his power and lose his life. ### After all that, Putin appears to have let Prigozhin go—despite having done far worse to critics who have done far less. Why do you think that is? Putin has jailed Vladimir Kara-Murza for 25 years for giving a few speeches about human rights abuses in Russia. To have an actual rebellious traitor and to let him off is completely out of character. Why would Putin be so lenient? There’s two reasons. One is that Prigozhin is the most capable fighter in all of Russia. He’s a killer, he’s ruthless, and he has every capacity to cause unheard-of hardships for Putin and everybody around him. Putin should be just as afraid of Prigozhin as Prigozhin should be of Putin. The second thing is that Prigozhin continues to be a key man in Russia. Russia is so full of incompetency that the one person who emerged who was competent at military operations was Yevgeny Prigozhin. He was the one person that the Ukrainians respected on the battlefield and he runs 17 other military operations in Africa on behalf of the Kremlin or with his mercenary group. And so Prigozhin is both too ruthless to arrest and also too important to the overall foreign policy of Russia. ### How has this incident undermined Putin’s image within Russia? His image has been totally destroyed. Russia is like a prison yard. It’s all based on brutality and respect. Putin was able to establish himself as the chief criminal in the prison yard by being so ruthless at the very beginning of his presidency, and that ruthlessness and that brutality allowed him to stay in power in a country in which it’s very difficult to do that. The fact that he was rumored to have gotten on his plane and fled Moscow, the fact that Prigozhin was unopposed, the fact that he let Prigozhin off the hook afterwards—it makes Putin look like a truly weak leader in a country where weakness is despised. There’s no way that this won’t invite more challenges now because Putin’s strength is diminished. ### With all that in mind, what do you think the future holds for Putin? Well, it’s hard to say. There are so many different factors that play in. Taking Prigozhin out of the military equation in Ukraine is going to give Ukrainians a great military advantage. The fact that Russian territory is undefended means that they have to disperse their military assets to protect more of Russia. The fact that every Ukrainian gain creates more infighting in Russia, that’s very helpful for the Ukrainians to have their victory. The door has now been open for anyone to challenge Putin—not just Prigozhin. If somebody can step into Putin’s shoes at some point, the riches are beyond imagination. So there’s a huge incentive for a lot of people to do that. Putin still has an opportunity to redeem himself, but in doing so he’s going to have to embark on an almighty purge that we haven’t seen since Stalin’s time. And I think that that’s what he’s going to do, but whether he succeeds in that is another question. ### Prigozhin is now in Belarus, as per the terms of the deal that ultimately prompted him to turn his march on Moscow around. Will he be safe there? Or should we expect him to face the fate of past Putin opponents? Everyone is talking about Prigozhin needing to worry. I think Putin probably needs to worry more about Prigozhin than vice versa. Prigozhin is a trained, cold-blooded killer. Putin is a guy who hides in his bunker. _This interview has been edited for style and length._ ## Transcript On June 24th this year, we saw some of the most dramatic events play out. I think in puta, naira, Russia. Where we had an armed rebellion of one faction of the Russian Armed Forces, marching on Moscow, with tanks taking over a few big Russian cities, and taking them very easily without much resistance. And the importance of that is I think that it shook the authority of President Vladimir Putin to the core. I think it's it's it's a level of weakness and uncertainty and in his grip on power that I haven't seen in 15 years of reporting on Russia. The mutineer. It's it's a it's a term used to hear associated with pirates and Buccaneers but it's kind of a useful way to think actually about the Wagner group and you've guinea pig ocean. It's Commander, they are a private Army, a mercenary force of paramilitary force that operates within the blue kind of brought her umbrella of the Russian Armed Forces, but very much Independence and then pretty autonomous more and more. So as the war in Ukraine has been folded over the last year and a half or so you can guinea pig, ocean has spent months during the war, in Ukraine, complaining against the, the commanders of the Russian military saying that they are not providing him with enough weapons enough ammunition that they are ineffective incompetent and trying to kind of Steel Authority from them. They've got more and more independent, confident better armed and I think that Independence is, what gave the commander? You've been here for the Gordon, the confidence. And that would spur to declare this Mutiny and go to war against basically the rest of the Armed Forces. Is very hard to say how this is going to play out from now on there does seem to be at least the beginnings of a purge going on within the Russian Elites in response to this. I haven't been to Moscow since 2015 when they expelled me from the country, certainly in the last few months, it has been rare for Western journalists to go in there very consistently. The the regime has gone after every layer of the media. So now the level of of control that the regime has and exerts over the media is so extreme that. It's very hard to find independent sources of information. We've seen already at least one Russian general, who was close to there to the rebel faction arrested, in General Store, avakin better known in the Russian media. At least is General Armageddon for the absolutely rampant and horrible war crimes that he's been accused of he was in charge For a period of a few months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then was removed from that command generals, Aurora Beacon is an ally of the rebel commander for Goshen. They were quite close. It seems that the General survey can has been detained or arrested because of his connections to to this Rebel faction. There's an effort now, to weed out or two to figure out within the Russian Elites, who was aligned with, with this Rebellion, who was potentially helping them, or giving them information, or where that they were planning this Mutiny. So that's going to play out certainly in the coming days, if not weeks. And again the rebel commander is still free, he's been given leave as far as we know. So there is still this kind of Rebel faction. That is not being dismantled, they're still around and they still can serve as a kind of Alternative Center of power alternative center of gravity for any factions within Rush. Within the Russian to leave within the Russian military to gravitate towards in opposition to President Vladimir Putin. I think one thing that's been very consistent and Putin, the 23 years in power is the key was the man at the top of the pyramid, at the top of what he called the vertical of power, this kind of great Machinery of the states where he was at the wheel and all of the other elements of this, this machine all the different Clans and towers of the Kremlin. They might fight with each other, but Putin was always the kind of arbiter above them all. Who could settle disputes and who could put people in their place when they challenge the system. But I think Putin himself is still trying to Parson understand just How Deeply the foundations of his authority have been shaken and I think an intuitive Lee has his approach to doing that is to look for the traders, to try to find them. But also mindful of the fact that if there are more traitors than he thinks, they could still United band together against If he cracks down too hard so it's quite a delicate Balancing Act. If he has to strike, right? He needs to put down the rebellion and control the treasonous factions within the Russian Elites, but he can't do it so harshly and end so openly that they have a mind to unite again and maybe make another attempt to, to take Moscow. But I think I would expect that the Putin will now impose even harsher controls over the Elites in and try to weed out a rest. If not kill enemies that he sees around him that he imagines around him. 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