the troops of Wagner concentrated in the rear Ukraine They now have a new destination: “25,000 men who were reconstituting themselves are now being thrown towards Moscow,” says Yago Rodríguez, director of ‘The Political Room’, after the head of the mercenary group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, have challenged the Kremlin and directed his troops towards the Russian capital.

The consequences on the ground of this rebellion, according to experts, could change the course of the war. “The main repercussion is that it can cause the collapse of the entire Russian front,” Rodríguez points out. “While the Ministry of Defense in Moscow is under attack, it cannot be making decisions about the defense of the front in Ukraine,” he summarizes.

The clear loser is Russia. Security and defense analyst Jesús Pérez Triana predicts that “Russian operations of Russian counterattacks are going to stop”: “Putin’s focus and priority right now has to be to crush this rebellion.”

If you manage to stop it soon, everything may stay the same, but if it goes on it can change everything. “The key here is that this last a little longer,” Rodríguez points out: “If this lasts three or four days it will destroy the Russian defensive capacity and it will allow the Ukrainians to attack and enter like a hot knife into butter” , affects.

It is also decisive, according to the experts, that Ukraine is fast and knows how to seize the moment. The key for Kyiv, continues Rodríguez, is to “react now, look for the weak points on the front, where units have left from to go to Moscow, where aviation is much less active” and “take advantage of that moment and those places to get into the Russians everywhere.”

And where does this leave Vladimir Putin? Analysts are clear that he sets an example of rebellion in Russia, leaving an image of a weak president. “That leader, whose prestige has revolved around the idea of ​​the strong man who put the country in order, has just collapsed,” says Pérez Triana. “He puts Putin in a position that is one of the least desired by any Russian leader, which is to appear weak,” he concludes.

It had been more than 30 years since Putin had suffered a rebellion within his own borders.