Russia will emerge from the turmoil caused by last week’s aborted mutiny “stronger,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
“Russia has always emerged stronger from difficulties,” Moscow’s top diplomat said at a June 30 online press briefing. 
“This will be the case this time,” he added. “We already feel that this has begun.”
On June 24, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia’s Wagner Group, staged an armed insurrection that had briefly appeared to threaten Moscow. 
The rebellion failed to gain any traction, however, and within 24 hours, Prigozhin called it off, ordering his fighters back to their base camps.
A private military firm linked to the Kremlin, Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has done much of the fighting in Ukraine since Russia invaded that country in February 2022….