Putin held talks with Wagner leader Prigozhin after aborted mutiny: Kremlin – National | 24CA News
President Vladimir Putin has held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders to debate the armed mutiny Wagner tried to mount in opposition to the military’s prime brass, Putin’s spokesman stated on Monday.
The assembly was first reported by French newspaper Liberation, which stated Prigozhin had met Putin and the pinnacle of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, and SVR Foreign Intelligence boss Sergei Naryshkin.
The assembly, in response to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, was held on June 29, 5 days after the aborted mutiny, which is broadly regarded to have posed probably the most critical problem to Putin since he got here to energy on the final day of 1999.
Peskov informed reporters that Putin had invited 35 individuals to the assembly, together with Prigozhin and Wagner unit commanders, and that the assembly had lasted three hours.
“The only thing we can say is that the president gave his assessment of the company’s (Wagner’s) actions at the front during the Special Military Operation (in Ukraine) and also gave his assessment of the events of 24 June (the day of the mutiny),” Peskov informed reporters.
He stated Putin had listened to the commanders’ personal explanations of what had occurred and had provided them additional choices for employment and fight.
“The commanders outlined their version of what happened (on June 24). They emphasised that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the head of state and the supreme commander-in-chief. They also said that they are ready to continue fighting for the Motherland,” stated Peskov.
The transient mutiny led by Prigozhin, by which Wagner fighters took management of the southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Donand a navy headquarters constructing, was defused in a deal brokered by Belarusian chief Alexander Lukashenko.
Putin, who likened the occasions to the turmoil which engulfed Russia within the run-up to the 1917 Russian Revolution, has since thanked his military and safety companies for averting chaos and civil conflict.
Prigozhin has stated the mutiny was not aimed toward overthrowing the federal government however at “bringing to justice” the military and defence chiefs for what he known as their blunders and unprofessional actions in Ukraine.
Putin has to this point stored Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov in place, judging by appearances by each males on state TV – rejecting Prigozhin’s appeals to sack them.
Prigozhin was meant to depart for Belarus beneath the phrases of the deal that ended the mutiny. But Lukashenko stated final week that Prigozhin was again in Russia and that Wagner fighters had not but taken up a suggestion to relocate to Belarus, elevating questions concerning the implementation of the settlement.
