"Prigozhin may be dead, but the damage is done because he lifted the lid on how badly Putin's invasion of Ukraine was actually going," Mr Ellwood said. Mr Putin is now "leading through fear rather than loyalty" and, crucially, the Russian oligarchs and elite no longer see him as a "capable guarantor" of their status. ![]() ![]() He offered a different view - that "resorting to eliminating dissenting voices on the scale that Putin is now doing" shows the "trust in the Kremlin inner circle has disappeared". Speaking to Sky News, Tobias Ellwood said he disagreed with the assessment by some analysts that with the apparent death of Yevgeny Prighozin, Mr Putin's "primary threat is now out of the picture" and the Russian president could emerge stronger. Vladimir Putin's days are "very much numbered", the chair of the UK defence select committee has said.
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