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Putin says he offered Wagner mercenaries option to keep operating as single unit
Updated On: 14 July, 2023 04:03 PM IST | Moscow | AP
Putin told Kommersant that one option would see Wagner keep serving under the same commander who goes by the call name Gray Hair
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he offered mercenaries from the Wagner private military company the option of continuing to serve as a single unit under the same officer when he met with them five days after the group`s abortive revolt last month that posed the most serious threat to his 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine.
In remarks to the business daily Kommersant published Friday, Putin described a Kremlin event attended by 35 Wagner commanders, including the group`s chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on June 29. He said that he talked to them about their actions in Ukraine, their mutiny, which he denounced as an act of treason in a televised address to the nation, and offered them various alternatives for future service.
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