BREAKING: The Kremlin's claimed that Wager group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin met with Vladimir Putin only days after his attempted coup.
Vladimir Putin met with Yevgeny Prigozhin just five days after the mercenary leader’s hours-long mutiny days after his brief mutiny, the Kremlin has claimed.five days after Wagner troops marched towards MoscowThe meeting, which saw 35 people invited including unit commanders, lasted three hours, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
During a separate meeting today with defence officials, Putin said that Wagner, a private paramilitary group, is fully funded by the state. Wagner has been given tens of billions of rubles in public money over the past year, Putin said, according to state-owned news agencies
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