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AP News: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday blasted organizers of a weekend revolt, the gravest threat yet to his power, as traitors who played into the hands of Ukraine’s government and its allies.
Reuters: A senior Russian lawmaker who has been involved in a number of negotiations related to Moscow's campaign in Ukraine called late on Monday for a professional army seven-million strong to ensure that no mercenary groups are needed for the country's security.
AP News: President Joe Biden declared Monday that the United States and NATO played no part in the Wagner mercenary group's short-lived insurrection in Russia, calling the uprising and the longer-term challenges it poses for President Vladimir Putin's authority “a struggle within the Russian system.”
ISW: The future of the Wagner Group is unclear, but it will likely not include Prigozhin and may not continue to exist as a distinct or unitary entity.
UK Ministry of Defence: Ukrainian Airborne forces have made small advances east from the village of Krasnohorivka, near Donetsk city, which sits on the old Line of Control.
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ABC News: Switzerland’s main intelligence agency says Russia continues to have dozens of spies disguised as diplomats at its embassy in Bern and its mission to the United Nations in Geneva, making the Alpine nation a hotspot for Russian espionage activity in Europe.
WSJ: Putin has relied on a group of trusted associates—many lifelong acquaintances—to maintain power. As the crisis passes, the West will be watching for signs of infighting.
AFP: Amsterdam's Hermitage museum said Monday it will change its name, a year after severing ties with the Saint Petersburg version over Russia's war in Ukraine.
Baltic Times: Due to a highly unpredictable situation in Russia, as of Monday, June 26, Latvian diplomatic and consular missions abroad stopped accepting visa applications of all kinds from Russian citizens, LETA was told at the Foreign Ministry.
Reuters: Putin's former chief strategist on Monday urged an end to mercenary groups in Russia after a mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner militia, cautioning that they interfered with the chain of command.
WSJ: Russian media was swept by the same mix of confusion and consternation as many ordinary people were feeling after the weekend’s dramatic military revolt.
Reuters: The boss of Russia's Wagner mercenary group re-emerged on Monday, two days after leading an aborted mutiny, saying he had never intended to overthrow the government and giving few clues about his own fate or the deal under which he stood down.
Bloomberg: While he’s the target of the Wagner founder’s fury over military losses and missteps since the invasion of Ukraine began, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was for years one of Russia’s most popular politicians.
Reuters: The United States plans to announce as soon as Tuesday a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million, showing that the US resolve to help Ukraine fight Russia was undeterred by the attempted mutiny over the weekend amongst Russian fighters.
Reuters: EU countries on Monday agreed to increase the maximum size of a fund used to finance military aid for Ukraine by 3.5 billion euros to 12 billion.
Euronews: The Hungarian government is preventing the EU from approving a new tranche of €500 million in military assistance for Ukraine. The month-long veto was re-affirmed during a meeting of foreign affairs ministers in Luxembourg on Monday.
Reuters: The Russian mercenary leader who led a mutiny that nearly reached Moscow said in a message released on Monday his forces had not intended to overthrow Russia's government, and had demonstrated the weaknesses in Russian security.
Meduza: Independent Russian publication Verstka reports that Belarus has started building camps for Wagner Group fighters. The camps will be located in the Mogilev region of Belarus, approximately 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the border with Ukraine, and will be able to accommodate 8,000 fighters.
POLITICO: Bulgaria’s Economy Minister Bogdan Bogdanov on Monday suggested Russia could have been responsible for an explosion in the early hours of Sunday at an arms factory in the town of Karnobat, just as Bulgaria is ramping up military exports to Ukraine.
Reuters: Germany is ready to deploy a robust brigade of some 4,000 troops to Lithuania permanently, in coordination with NATO's rethink on defence of its eastern flank in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Germany's defence minister said on Monday.
AFP: The Wagner mercenary group will continue operations in Mali and the Central African Republic despite its leader's aborted insurrection over the weekend, Russia's foreign minister said on Monday.
RFE/RL: Malyar said that the Ukrainian military continued to make advances in the Melitopol and Berdyansk areas of the southern Zaporizhzhya region, despite fierce Russian resistance and "significant" human and material losses.
Reuters: The aborted mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in Russia demonstrates that Moscow committed a strategic mistake by waging war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.
Reuters Exclusive: Deutsche Bank has told clients it can no longer guarantee full access to Russian stocks that belong to them, underlining the challenges global investors face to recover stranded investments in the country's companies.
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