2023-04-24 19:50:01
Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, in a file image. EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA | REUTERS
The son of the Kremlin spokesman joined the mercenaries to fight for six months as a gunner in eastern Ukraine
24 abr 2023 . Updated at 7:50 p.m.
Nikoli Peskov, son of the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, would have allegedly served with the mercenaries of the Grupo Wagner on the eastern front of Ukraine as a unit gunner, according to his own father and the head of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Seduced by the exploits in Syria and elsewhere of Prigozhin’s men, Nikoli asked his father to put him in contact with the head of the Wagners, according to some audios that have circulated through the Telegram messaging application and that quotes the Ukrainska Pravda.
His son wanted to go to war, and there was no way he was going to give up. I advised him not to go to the Ministry of Defense, because they would put him in a staff or use him as cannon fodder, Prigozhin said through his press office.
Dmitri Peskov declined to assess his son’s role with the mercenaries. He only commented that he had been his own decision and that he had been awarded a medal of valor for his service.
This participation in the youth war is an exercise in caution in two ways. In the first place, because Wagner’s boss would have provided Nikoli with a false identity to protect him during a stay in the Ukraine, which was also brief, since I only served six months and working as a gunner, which means that it was not in the front line, but in a more secure position, since the artillery operates from the rear. Something that would carry a certain cowardice reading.
On the other hand, Peskov wanted to flee from the Prigozhin’s criticism of the sons of Russian oligarchs because, being a spokesman for the Kremlin, he did not want to turn them against Vladimir Putin’s regime, especially when the country’s elites have already suffered serious changes in their lifestyles due to the sanctions of Ukraine’s allies. Of course, for normal people this is an unusual situation because everyone is used to the fact that the children of the elite are hidden by their parents, Prigozhin said.
The 33-year-old son of the Kremlin spokesman is also known as Nikoli Choles because he spent ten years living in the UK, which he left between 2011 and 2012. after working for Russia Today in the British Isles.
In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, the eldest assures that Wagner is a friendly mixed collective and added that he would like to return to the war, to his companions: A part of me wants to return to them. He is currently on vacation.
The Wagner Group is responsible for war crimes such as the killing of civilians and prisoners of war, often using an excessive level of violence.
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