Putin 'just hid' during Wagner's mutiny, proving he can't guarantee 'security' for Russia, a former Russian colonel says

• Putin "just hid" during Wagner's mutiny, a former Russian colonel told The Washington Post.
• Chaos in Russian leadership left local authorities without direction during Prigozhin's rebellion.
• Putin knew of the rebellion days before it happened and didn't act, Western officials have said. 

Before and during Wagner Group's chaotic armed mutiny, President Vladimir Putin was far from the leader Russian elites expected him to be. "He just hid," Gennady Gudkov, a former colonel in the Russian security services who is now an opposition politician in exile, told The Washington Post.