Russian President Vladimir Putin invited a total of 35 people to the three-hour meeting which is the first confirmed contact between the president and Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in the wake of the uprising.
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just five days after Prigozhin launched the most serious challenge to Putin’s authority the country has seen since his rise to power in 1999. Putin invited a total of 35 people to the three-hour meeting which is the first confirmed contact between the president and Prigozhin in the wake of the uprising.
“The only thing we can say is that the president gave his assessment of [Wagner’s] actions at the front during the Special Military Operation [in Ukraine] and also gave his assessment of the events of 24 June,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov told reporters, referring to the day of the rebellion. He added that Putin listened to the accounts of Wagner unit commanders about what had taken place during the mutiny and offered them options for combat and employment. The commanders “emphasized that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander-in-chief,” Peskov said. “They also said that they are ready to continue fighting for the Motherland.”
When asked if officials from Russia’s Defense Ministry were in the meeting, Peskov said he “had nothing more to say” on the matter, according to a report inOn June 24, Wagner mercenaries seized control of the Russian military headquarters in the southern city of
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