Putin met with Wagner leader Prigozhin after failed mutiny, Kremlin says

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Source: Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner Group mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin and 35 of his commanders on June 29 in Moscow, five days after Wagner’s brief mutiny aimed at ousting the country’s top military officials, who were criticized by Prigozhin for botching the invasion of Ukraine.
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In the meeting, which lasted about three hours, Putin “gave his assessment” of the private military company’s fighting record in Ukraine as well as its actions on the day of the mutiny, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday in a conference call with reporters.

“The president listened to the commanders’ explanations and offered them options for further employment options and combat application,” Peskov said, without offering more detail.

The commanders presented their version of what had happened. They emphasized that they were staunch supporters and soldiers of the leader and Supreme Commander-in-Chief and said they were ready to continue fighting for the Motherland,” he added. Prigozhin returned to Russia last week, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin ally. A businessman in St. Petersburg, Prigozhin’s hometown, said the Wagner leader had returned to reclaim money and weapons seized by the Russian government.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/10/russia-wagner-putin-prigozhin-meeting/

[LudwigPastorius]

1. I'm not buying that borscht, Dmitry.

[Warpy]

2. This whole thing is really, really screwy

Meanwhile, the architects of this war are missing. Shoigu has been seen in a video, but nobody's buying it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-defense-chief-shoigu-strange-video-wagner-mutiny-russia-2023-6?op=1

I could almost buy a meeting with his bestest buddy over a reappearance of the guys who botched this thing so completely.

Russia is about to lose this war and Prigozhin knows it. Putin might be just desperate enough to listen to him.

Or Prigozhin might take a flying lesson. We really don't know.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Perhaps, it's

Golden Bridge time?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218037574#post17

[Martin68]

3. I don't believe the paranoid Putin would be in the same room with Prigozhin and "35 of his

commanders." And right after the threat on Moscow. I call bullshit on this story.

[C Moon]

4. They put this out while they are searching for, and working on, a Prigozhin lookalike. nt

[progree]

5. Dupe of

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143098490

[Emile]

7. After an alert and discussion with the hosts locking thread.

This is a duplicate of an earlier post. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143098490