Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's declaration of 'war' against the Russian military is 'not likely to turn into a civil war,' Dmitri Alperovitch said.
Dmitri Alperovitch, founder of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator, shot down suggestions that the conflict would result in the development of a new Russian civil war, predicting in a series of tweets that Prigozhin's forces would quickly be defeated.
Russian billionaire and Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown on June 17, 2016, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A security expert said Prigozhin's mercenary organization is about to get"crushed" by the Russian military.."It is what in Russia is called 'razborki' And it looks like one gang is about to get totally crushed because the other has all the weapons and the security services on their side.
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