The US State Department commented on the meeting between Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, noting that both of them “gave orders to commit crimes in Ukraine.”
Source: U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, quoted by Ukrinform
Direct speech: “Regarding the reports (in the media – ed.), as I say, obviously Yevgeny Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin did not get along with each other, now we see that they met.”
Details: Miller emphasized that the assessments of the American side remain the same as at the beginning of the situation with the rebellion in Russia: “There are no heroes in this confrontation between them. Both of them are persons who committed atrocities and gave orders to commit crimes in Ukraine.”
Miller also expressed his conviction that this is clearly not the last development of the story with Prigogine.
What came before: Before this French edition Release citing sources in Western intelligence reported that Prigozhin was in Moscow and met with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on July 1.
Russian dictator spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Putin’s meeting with Prigozhin after the mutiny.
Background:
On July 6, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Wagnerites are not in the country now. After the mutiny and a conversation with the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Prigozhin announced that his mercenaries were returning to field camps. The criminal case against Prigozhin in the Russian Federation was promised to be closed, and he was supposed to “go to Belarus.” On June 27, Prigozhin’s business jet flew from the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to Belarus, another plane flew there from St. Petersburg. On the same day, Lukashenka claimed that Prigozhin was in Belarus. On July 4, it was reported that Prigozhin personally arrived in St. Petersburg, where the weapons seized during the searches were returned to him.
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2023-07-10 23:48:43
