Russian President Vladimir Putin’s future is uncertain, after an attempted armed mutiny plunged his government into crisis. Wagner group, a private military force that has flourished with Putin’s blessing, has exposed just how disorganised Putin’s government is after marching from the Ukrainian front towards Moscow.

Today, fellow at the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Matthew Sussex.

The public face of Russia’s Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is openly feuding with Putin’s generals and embarrassing stories are emerging in the Western press.

How long can this go on? And what are the consequences?

Even as Russia continued to lose ground in his war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is defiant; calling the west satanic and making the case for a greater Russian empire.

It is a turn to the ultra-nationalism of the Russian far-right, says Associate Professor Matthew Sussex.