2023-09-29 11:23:48
According to the Russian president, Troshev, nicknamed ‘Sedoi’, has experience in this type of mission
Sergei GUNEYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin descends the stairs to address Defense Ministry troops
The president Vladimir Putin asked a former assistant Yevgeni Prigozhinfounder of the paramilitary group Wagner who criticized the Russian head of state and who died in a plane crash at the end of August, to work on training volunteers for fighting in Ukraine. “During the last meeting, we talked about the fact that you will be involved in the formation of units capable of carrying out various combat missions, mainly, of course, in the ‘special military operation’ zone in Ukraine,” Putin told Andrei Troshev on Thursday -Friday, 28th, according to a Kremlin statement released this Friday, 29th. Putin highlighted that Troshev, nicknamed “Sedoi”, a former close collaborator of Prigozhin in the Wagner group, has the experience to coordinate this type of mission, three months after the paramilitary group’s failed mutiny attempt in Russia. The men of the Wagner group led by Prigozhin were on the front lines in eastern Ukraine, in particular in the battle for control of the city of Bakhmut, captured by the Russians in May after almost a year of fierce fighting. After becoming a rival of the Russian president with an attempted armed mutiny, Prigozhin and several collaborators died when their private plane crashed during a trip between Moscow and St. Petersburg at the end of August.
*With information from AFP.
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