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Russian President Vladimir Putin assured Tuesday that the funding for the Wagner group, which rebelled against the Russian military leadership over the weekend, is fully covered by the
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured Tuesday that the funding for the Wagner group, which rebelled against the Russian military leadership over the weekend, is fully covered by the state budget.
“The maintenance of the Wagner group was entirely the responsibility of the state, the Ministry of Defense and the state treasury,” Putin said at a meeting with Russian military in the Kremlin.
“We funded this group completely,” he insisted.
Putin specified that only “between May 2022 and May 2023, the state allocated 86 billion rubles (about $1 billion 14 million) for the maintenance of the private military company Wagner Group, illegal in Russia.”
Meanwhile, according to him, the owner of the Concord company and the head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, earned 80 billion rubles (about $945 million) from food supplies for the Russian army in a year.
“I hope no one has stolen anything or stolen little. But no doubt we will take care of it,” he said, referring to the investigation into the use of public money by the Wagnerists, who fought in Ukraine for 16 months before turning against the Russian military. leadership.
Private jet of the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin landed today at the Machulishchi military airfieldnot far from Minsk, according to the Belarusian investigative team Gayun, which monitors military activity on the territory of Belarus.
The plane landed at 07:37 local time (04:37 GMT), according to the flight tracking page Flyradar24.
This is an Embraer Legacy 600 with registration number RA-02795. included in the US sanctions list in 2019 for his association with Prigogine, albeit with the old M-SAAN registration.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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