The Kremlin announced on Monday that the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, met in the Presidency, in Moscow, with Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, on June 29, a few days after the failure of a rebellion.
According to the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskov, the meeting lasted “almost three hours”, and Putin took “an assessment” of the revolt on June 24 and listened to the leaders of the Wagner group, who assured him that they supported him. him and that he would “keep fighting” for Russia.
“The meeting took place in the Kremlin and lasted almost three hours,” Peskov said, adding that there were 35 participants.
“[Durante a reunião, Putin] conducted an evaluation of the company’s performance [Wagner] at the front in the context of the special military operation and also of the events of June 24,” Peskov said, referring to the mutiny led by Prigozhin, who aborted it when his soldiers were some 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Putin listened to “the commanders’ explanations” and offered them job options after the rebellion, according to the Kremlin.
“The commanders themselves put forward their version of what happened and stressed that they were staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and commander-in-chief,” that is, Putin, Peskov added.
The Wagnerian leaders “also said that they were willing to continue fighting for the country.”
“That’s all we can say about this meeting,” he concluded, without giving information about the alleged agreement with Belarus, where Prigozhin and his soldiers could have gone.
Source: TSF
