Russo-Ukraine War: According to Western intelligence sources, Russian President Vladimir Putin has held secret talks in the Kremlin with the Wagner chieftain who waged an armed rebellion against his rule, a media report said.
The unannounced session took place on July 1, a week after the uprising of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his army of Wagner mercenaries, according to the French publication Liberation, reported the Daily Mail, citing secret service sources.
Since the alleged meeting, it appears that Prigozhin has remained in Russia rather than being forced into exile in neighboring Belarus, as had previously seemed his fate.
The claims of a sensational face-off between Putin and Prigozhin come amid a different theory that the Wagner boss could be tasked with using his armed forces to assassinate Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and ‘bring his head to the Kremlin’. Daily Mail has reported.
Prigozhin may seek to commit ‘some big atrocity for Russia’s benefit’ in order to work back with the Putin regime after his armed uprising aimed at toppling Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Defense Staff Valery Gerasimov Said one of Moscow’s most prominent people – respected editor, Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov, the Daily Mail reported.
“I think [Yevgeny Prigozhin] can’t apologize [from Putin]Muratov, who runs the leading investigative news outlet Novaya Gazeta, told Zhivoy Gvozd on his YouTube show.
“But he may commit some major atrocity for the benefit of Russia. He may try to organize an assassination attempt.” [Volodymyr] Bring Zelensky and the head of the President of Ukraine to the Kremlin. They should do something that takes away the flavor of what Putin calls “stabbing Russia in the back,” Muratov said.
In the wake of the aborted armed uprising on 24 June, Putin quickly withdrew his threats to accuse Prigozhin of treason and lead a rebellion.
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