
Putin may have fallen with his own feet in the "whirlpool" of war crimes investigations. Vladimir Putin's statements after the Wagner Group coup may have made it easier for an international court to prosecute him and the Russian state for war crimes committed by mercenary fighters.
After the rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin said the mercenaries were "fully funded" by the Russian authorities. In just one year they took more than 86 billion rubles from the state budget, or over one billion dollars, Putin himself confirmed
" These words have potentially very significant consequences in terms of exposing the Russian state to responsibility for the acts of Wagner and Putin, personally and individually as the leader of the Russian state, " said Philippe Sands KC, professor of law at UCL and author of East West Street, a book on the origins of international humanitarian law.
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