2023-07-11 05:01:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin met on June 29 with the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, after their failed rebellion, the Kremlin reported. The meeting, which was also attended by all the commanders of the mercenary company, lasted for three hours, said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, at his daily press conference.
“The meeting took place in the Kremlin and lasted for almost three hours,” Peskov said, adding that the meeting had 35 participants. During it, Putin “gave his assessment of the performance of the company (Wagner) at the front, within the framework of the special military operation and also of the events of June 24”, alluding to the mutiny led by Prigozhin, who he aborted it when his soldiers were about 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Putin listened to “the commanders’ explanations” and offered them employment 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 the commander-in-chief,” Peskov added.
Wagner’s leaders “also said that they were ready to continue fighting for the fatherland.” “That’s all we can say about that meeting,” concluded Dmitri Peskov. The origin, development and end of this brief mutiny still has many obscure points, including what was officially a suspicious exile of Prigozhin in Belarus, a country whose president is a close ally of Vladimir Putin. The whole episode would denote fractures in the Russian internal front, but the interpretation is still open-ended.
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