A year ago, Wagner chief Prigozhin's mutiny briefly threatened Putin
Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenaries seized a military HQ and began marching toward Moscow but called off their mutiny after a few hours. Prigozhin was later killed in an airplane crash, while Wagner has been all but disbanded.
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00:00It's been one year since mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin mounted his brief armed rebellion
00:06in Russia, directly challenging Vladimir Putin's rule.
00:12Prigozhin and his army seized the military headquarters in the south and began their
00:16march for justice towards Moscow with the aim of ousting the defense ministry's leaders.
00:23Prigozhin had accused the ministry of starving his force of ammunition in Ukraine.
00:29But just hours later, the mission was aborted following an amnesty deal brokered by Belarus
00:35President Alexander Lukashenko.
00:39Two months later, a plane carrying Prigozhin and his top associates crashed while flying
00:44from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing all seven passengers and a crew of three.
00:50A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded there was an intentional explosion
00:55on board, but Putin dismissed any allegations of Kremlin involvement as an absolute lie.