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"We will not be taken hostage by the putschists," Legendre told a daily press briefing.

“We will consult with the putschists because we want things to be orderly,” Macron said in an interview with France’s TF1 and France 2 television stations.

“The putschist is not only the person who takes up arms to overthrow a regime,” he told the gathering of world leaders in New York.

Asked about the junta's latest comments, French President Emmanuel Macron said "we do not recognise any legitimacy in the statements of the putschists."

Wagner, if it survives, or other emerging Russian mercenary groups, will increasingly find the market limited to putschist regimes using them as the security partner of last resort.