Live news: Putin breaks silence after rebellion ends

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Monday that Ukraine was somehow involved in the short-lived uprising of warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin.

“This fratricide is the result of Russia’s enemies and the neo-Nazis in Kiev, their Western masters and national traitors of all kinds,” Russia’s president said in a televised five-minute address to the nation, his first remarks since the end Was. of the aborted rebellion.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace downplayed the impact of the uprising in Russia on Putin’s authority, indicating that the status quo was in place in Moscow.

Wallace said, “We shouldn’t necessarily give too much credit to the instability, that somehow this is a big derailment of the Kremlin.”