Kremlin has no intention of tracking Wagner PMC founder Prigozhin’ whereabouts — Peskov
The Telegram channel of Wagner private military company founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posted several audio records with his statements on the evening of June 23, in which he claimed that strikes had allegedly been delivered against his formations and accused the country’s military leadership of that
MOSCOW, July 6. /TASS/. Moscow is not keeping track of whereabouts of Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) founder Yevgeny Prigozhin as it has neither possibilities nor the desire, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated earlier that Prigozhin was stayin in Russia’s second largest city of Saint Petersburg.
"No, we are not tracking his [Prigozhin’s] whereabouts, have no possibilities and desire to do so," Peskov told journalists.
The Telegram channel of Wagner private military company founder Yevgeny Prigozhin posted several audio records with his statements on the evening of June 23, in which he claimed that strikes had allegedly been delivered against his formations and accused the country’s military leadership of that.
The Russian Defense Ministry dismissed this information as false. The units of the Wagner private military company that supported Prigozhin moved towards the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and Moscow.
In the wake of this, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia opened a criminal case into a call for an armed mutiny. In a televised address to the nation on June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Wagnerites’ actions a betrayal.
Later, upon agreement with the Russian leader, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held negotiations with Prigozhin, following which the Wagner private military company pulled back its military columns and returned to its field camps. The FSB press office announced on June 27 that the criminal case had been terminated.