Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said Saturday that a contingent of his fighters who advanced towards Moscow in what he described as a rebellion against Russian military leaders would turn back to…
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It’s started by the military, so it’s a coup, maybe a revolt. In my definition, a revolution is done by the people, not the military.
Not THE military. A private military company, rather. Closer would be if Blackwater (academi? Xe? Idk what their current name is) did it in the US.
I don’t even know what a good term for it would be. Military coup usually means the country’s own military.