On September 29, the Kremlin press service announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had held a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Russia, Yunusbek Yevkurov, and the Commander of the private military company "Wagner," Andrey Troshev.
According to the press, Putin initiated the meeting, which was not specified on the Kremlin website.
"Andrey Nikolayevich, I would like to start our meeting. In our last meeting, we discussed your participation in shaping the formations, first of all, in forming the units that should be divided in special military operation zones. You have been working in such formations for more than a year now. You know what it is, and you know how it has been done, you know what needs to be done. As for a number of areas, including very key and sensitive ones, there are problems that must be solved in advance for effective action in a special military operation," Putin said in his appeal to Troshev.
The Commander of the private military company "Wagner," Yevgeny Prigozhin, participated in Putin's meeting with the "Wagner" commanders. According to Putin, he suggested "several options for ensuring work" for the sent soldiers.
"When I said this, a lot of noise was made. Prigozhin, who has never been to the front, says the guys don't agree with that, the guys don't like it," Putin said after the meeting.
According to Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian President, Troshev is currently working in the Russian Ministry of Defense. At the end of September, first Russian military Telegram channels, and then representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, announced the return of the "Wagner" military personnel to the conflict zones in Ukraine.
"They have returned. They passed through checkpoints and returned here," said a Ukrainian soldier to CNN.
As a reminder, Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the "march of justice" on June 23. The "Wagner" soldiers covered almost a hundred kilometers without meeting any resistance. On June 24, Prigozhin ordered the march to end. This decision was made after negotiations between Prigozhin and Lukashenko, during which Prigozhin was asked to "go to Belarus." The Russian government offered several options to the soldiers: "go to Belarus," sign an agreement with the Russian Ministry of Defense, or protect their families and return home.
On August 23, after two months of silence, Prigozhin's private business plane crashed in the Tver region. As a result, ten people, including Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Commander of "Wagner," Dmitry Utkin, were killed.
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