Future hours are crucial, this is the risk for Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing the most serious threat in his 23 years in power. It is impressive to see his domination of the night, an inevitable and impossible action.

Inevitably, since war mismanagement meant that only one system so closed and immune to criticism such as the Kremlin could survive such an adventure, and impossible, as Putin's critics simply disappear, fall out of windows, or be poisoned.

Now, however, the fifth largest army in the world is facing a brother's murder, where soldiers point their weapons at their countrymen. According to an article published on CNN that signs of Yevgeny Pigozin's disobedience were repeatedly viewed as a distraction to keep generals on foot.

But what we're seeing today with Putin forced to admit that Rostov-on-Don, his main military centre, is out of control, brings an end to any assumption that this was all a Kremlin idea.

However, Wagner probably planned this operation a long time ago. The reason for this rebellion seemed spontaneous with the case of an air strike in one of his camps, which the Russian Defence Ministry denied.

Meanwhile, hours later Pigozin told the truth because of the war, Russia and the Russians were not threatened by a NATO attack. The only lie he insisted on was that the Russian High Command was behind the invasion plan, not Putin himself. His forces gathered very quickly and quickly headed for Rostov. That's hard to do in one afternoon.

Pigozin may have believed that he could move Putin to change the leadership of the Ministry of Defence, which he has publicly reviled for months, but Putin's speech on Saturday morning eliminated any such possibility.