One Moscow resident who gave his identify as Nikolai – declining like others to give his surname –- had watched the army take up positions to defend town.
“It’s frightening of course. You sit at home thinking about what might happen,” he informed Reuters. “It’s disturbing, both for you and your loved ones.”
Some Moscow residents discovered it exhausting to grasp the dimensions of occasions on Saturday.
“It’s really tough news, really unexpected. I’ve just come back from university. I’ve just done my last exam and the news was really unexpected as I was prepping (for the exam) last night,” stated Vladimir, a pupil. “I don’t really know how to react. I haven’t really got my head around it yet.”
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, had declared {that a} “counter-terrorism regime” was in pressure, earlier than the chief of the Wagner non-public militia introduced that his fighters would flip again to keep away from bloodshed.
In Kyiv’s Independence Square, full of residents having fun with a stroll, Natalia Tanich, 48, acknowledged a sure pleasure in watching the Russian standoff.
“I enjoy what is happening in Russia. The inevitable conflict between Prigozhin and Putin was expected,” she stated. “I don’t know what may come out of it. But I wish for them to shoot each other and die.”
In Moscow a girl referred to as Galina stated she thought what was taking place was some form of “provocation”.
“It doesn’t frighten me at all,” she stated. “I have confidence in our president and our people.”
One man who declined to be named in any respect stated he thought it was simply politics taking part in out. “They might cancel a few events, and I make my living from events. I have an event going on now, so I could lose out because of this,” he stated.
“But otherwise, it’s their business, it’s politics – let them get on with it.”
