The content of Private Military Company (PMC) “Wagner” was provided entirely by the state. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with military personnel at the Kremlin Representative Office on June 27.
The head of state said that since May 2022, the state has paid this PMC more than 86 billion rubles. for fighter salaries and incentive bonuses.
“I want to emphasize and I want us all to know: the upkeep of the entire Wagner Group was entirely provided by the state – from the Ministry of Defence, from the state budget. We fully funded this group,” Putin said in a meeting with the military, the video of which son TASS agency.
According to the President, only in the period from May 2022 to May 2023, “the state paid the Wagner company 86 billion 262 million rubles for salaries and bonuses.”
“Of these, the allocation is 70 billion 384 (million), incentive payments – 15 billion 877 (million),” the head of state clarified.
He added that another 110 billion 179 million rubles. went to insurance payments.
Separately, Putin noted the income of Wagner’s owner, the Concord company, which amounted to 80 billion rubles for the year.
“During the year, the owner of the company Concord through Voentorg received and earned from the state, supplying food and providing catering services to the army, 80 billion rubles,” the leader said. Russian.
According to TASS, Putin promised to take care of the Concorde earnings.
On Tuesday, June 27, Putin spoke to military and law enforcement officials who helped stop an attempted armed “mutiny” in Russia. The president stressed that the security forces “have practically stopped the civil war”.
Events related to PMC “Wagner” that law enforcement agencies of Russia qualified as an attempted armed “mutiny”, took place on 23 and 24 June.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner, who brought charges against the Defense Ministry, said 25,000 people would “understand why the chaos is happening in the country”.
Putin considered the actions of the PMC a “stab in the back” and a betrayal, but Prigozhin himself claims that his “campaign” began “because of injustice” and was not intended to ” overthrow the existing regime and the legitimately elected government”.
The situation was resolved through the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, after negotiations with which Prigozhin agreed to stop the movement of Wagner PMC to Moscow.
The Kremlin reported that PMC Wagner will go to field camps, and Prigozhin will go to Belarus. On Tuesday, June 27, we learned that the case of the rebellion was closed without further action.
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