Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, has refused to allow his fighters to integrate into Russia’s security forces, according to President Vladimir Putin. Putin stated in an interview with a newspaper that five days after the uprising of the mercenaries, he met with about three dozen of them and their leader. He made the offer to the mercenaries to continue serving in Russia.
“They could have all come together in one place and continued their ministry and nothing would have changed,” he told the paper. Many of the combatants would have agreed. However, according to Putin’s account, Prigozhin objected to the offer.
The Wagner group no longer “exists”.
“Prigozhin (…) said after listening: ‘No, the guys will not agree with such a decision,'” Putin said. The president reiterated that the Wagner group had disbanded: “It just doesn’t exist.” Prigozhin had led his mercenary uprising three weeks earlier. His troops temporarily took control of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, where the Russian army has its headquarters for the war in Ukraine.
A few hundred kilometers from Moscow, Prigozhin, who had repeatedly criticized the Russian military leadership, broke off the mutiny. An agreement was reached granting Prigozhin impunity and exile in Belarus.
Source: Krone
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