Evgeny Prigozhin would be in Moscow and meet with Vladimir Putin .
The French newspaper Liberation made it known, citing "Western information service sources".
«At least from Friday 1 July – writes the newspaper – Prigozhin would be in the Kremlin, where he has been summoned by his main commanders . He would have met Vladimir Putin and would have been heard by General Viktor Zolotov, commander of the Rosgvardia national guard and a loyalist of the president, and by Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's external intelligence services".
The meeting was also confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: it took place – he said – on June 29, was attended by 35 people, including several other Wagner commanders, and lasted three hours.
Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner Brigade who on 24 June, after severely attacking the Russian military leaders, left Donetsk and marched with his troops towards Moscow before stopping, after mediation by the Belarusian president Lukashenko, 200 km from the capital.
Meanwhile, today the Russian chief of staff and commander of military operations in Ukraine reappeared on video, one of Prigozhin's main targets together with Defense Minister Shoigu. Valery Gerasimov made his first public appearance since the failed Wagner rebellion : a video, released by the defense ministry, shows him presiding over a meeting where he was briefed on an attempt by the Ukrainian army to carry out rocket attacks yesterday in Russia and against Crimea on Sunday.
(Unioneonline/L)
