It is unclear who circulated the photo but it fits with an apparent campaign to embarrass the once feared mercenary warlord
In an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, Putin confirmed that he had met with Prigozhin and 35 Wagner commanders on June 29, five days after their rebellion, to offer them the chance to fight under the Russian army.
Kommersant said that Putin then named this “real” Wagner leader as “Grey-haired”, the military callsign for Andrei Troshev, a notoriously hard-drinking former Russian army colonel. He is a veteran of wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya and led Wagner forces into battle against ISIS forces in Syria in 2016.Article contentPutin said that the 62-year-old Prigozhin had openly disagreed with him at their post-rebellion meeting when he offered the Wagner leaders the opportunity to join the Russian army.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.Putin is known to hate traitors and people who cross him, often ordering his assassins to kill them.
The Pentagon has said that it doesn’t know the whereabouts of Prigozhin and that Wagner was no longer playing a significant role in the war in Ukraine.
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