Ah. The talking head I watched said there had been no opposition all along the highway, which was why he was sneering at the idea that the coupe was real.

I read that it made Putin angry, which if a carefully plotted plot was done too soon, might be the case, which then would lead to all bets off threatening of families. Which, think about it, Prigozhin knows how Moscow works. He knows about windows and badly timed cups of tea. He knows about hidden agents. He must have expected to be immune

What most I have read have agreed on is that a new dictator doesn't actually improve things in the crazy thinking dept.