Prigozhin's Wagner soldiers took over the city of Rostov without a fight, and some of the locals welcomed them.

Another Wagner column seems to have rushed towards Moscow, while Putin ordered real army units to stop them.

Ukraine welcomed the opportunity that an internal conflict in Russia might offer. However, I expect this won't give Ukraine much of an opportunity. Prigozhin was at pains to explain that the army centers he had taken control of were working on the war with Ukraine just as before.

Then he made a deal with Putin to abort the coup.

Prigozhin's attack seemed precipitously sudden, with too little public preparation to build up much support. His climb down seems unbelievably fast as well. I would not expect someone who has launched an armed rebellion and been accused of treason to call it off so quickly.

I have to wonder whether this coup was a kind of theater, agreed in advance between Prigozhin and Putin.