Journalist Maxim Trustlyubov writes : “It can be assumed that Prigozhin’s interview is, firstly, an attempt to shift the guilt <...> to the Ministry of Defense and Shoigu personally. And, secondly, an attempt to restart Putin (Prigozhin himself? It is unlikely, who knows) as a “normal” populist leader. For such a figure, the first move is an antielitic position. The second is a connection with the people without intermediaries. What ( conflict - Polit.ru ) Putin did not start, he already said.