“Nothing would have changed for them. They would have been led by the same person who was their true commander all this time,” Putin stressed, noting that many fighters in the room nodded as he expressed his proposal, and then “Prigozhin, who sat at the front and did not see this, he said: “No, the guys do not agree with this decision.”
Let us remember that the Head of State met with the PMC unit commanders on June 29. The talks in the Kremlin lasted three hours. Putin listened to the fighters, gave his assessment of the events that took place on June 24. Representatives of “Wagner” said that they are staunch supporters and soldiers of the Supreme Commander. “They also said that they were ready to continue fighting for the Motherland,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in detail.
As for the question of the legalization of private military companies in Russia, it must be discussed in the government and the State Duma. Until now, companies like Wagner do not exist legally, Vladimir Putin stressed.
