The Russia president said he had praised Wagner fighters for their military feats and suggested that a different Wagner leader take over the unit. Read more at straitstimes.com.
while the government of Belarus said some Wagner fighters were there, training its forces.
He said he had praised Wagner fighters for their military feats and suggested that a different Wagner leader take over from Prigozhin, according to Kommersant, a Russian business daily that, along with a journalist from state television, conducted the interview. He said he told the Wagner troops that he “regretted that they had appeared dragged” into the mutiny, appearing to pin the blame on Prigozhin.
Mr Putin wants to draw a sharp distinction between Wagner fighters, whose experience and expertise he can exploit, and the mercenary leader he now sees as reckless and untrustworthy, according to Ms Tatiana Stanovaya, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A Kremlin spokesman first disclosed the meeting early this week, saying that the Wagner commanders had aired their concerns – a striking admission considering that days earlier, Mr Putin had denounced the uprising’s leaders as traitors.
Prigozhin has said his rebellion was not aimed at toppling Mr Putin but at removing the military leaders in Moscow he had spent months denouncing as inept, in foul-mouthed tirades that the president tolerated. After sending an armoured column rolling toward the capital, he called off their advance after receiving assurances that he and the Wagner troops would not be punished.
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