“What we’re seeing is a very complicated dance between Prigozhin and Putin. I think Putin is someone who generally thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold, so he’s gonna try to settle the situation to the extent he can.”
. “He’s moved around a bit,” Burns said. “He’s been in Minsk lately. I’m not sure he has any plans to retire in the suburbs of Minsk. But he’s spent time in Russia as well.”
Burns confirmed suspicions that his intelligence agency “knew things ahead of time” relating to the mutiny but refused to go into specifics about what information the CIA had obtained.widely circulated on Telegram that called for the Russians disillusioned with the Kremlin to talk to American intelligence. “We had two-and-a-half million views of that Telegram video in the first week it was on,” Burns said.
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