US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the brief insurrection in Russia showed cracks in Vladimir Putin's rule.

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Blinken: Wagner Insurrection Shows Cracks in Putin's Rule

Turning now to politics. Us Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday that the brief insurrection in Russia led by members of mercenary troops within the Wagner group show cracks in Russian. President Vladimir Putin's role as leader of the country. Blinken said in an interview with CNN yesterday that quote, this is just an added chapter to a very, very bad book that Putin has written for Russia. But what's so striking about it is it's internal. Now the remarks came after the leader of Wagner's paramilitary group marched his troops toward Moscow, taking control of Russian military facility along the way that the paramilitary group has been fighting alongside a Russian soldiers in Ukraine.