The maintenance of PMC “Wagner” was fully provided by the state. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about this.
He clarified that from May 2022 to May 2023, the state paid 86 billion and 262 million rubles from the budget for monetary maintenance and incentive payments to PMCs. More than 70.3 billion rubles. of which – cash content, and 15.8 billion rubles. – incentive payments.
In addition, Putin added, 110 billion 179 million rubles were spent on insurance payments.
The President also said that Prigozhin’s Concord company received 80 billion rubles through Voentorg.
Recall that on Saturday, June 24, the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don was captured by the Wagner PMC. This happened against the backdrop of statements by Yevgeny Prigozhin about allegedly inflicted by the Russian military missile and bomb attacks on PMC camps. These allegations were refuted by both the Ministry of Defense and the FSB. As a result, a criminal case was opened against Prigozhin for organizing an armed rebellion. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself called the actions of the “Wagnerites” a criminal adventure.
Later it became known that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Prigozhin and he accepted his proposal to stop the Wagner movement in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate. After that, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov spoke, saying that Prigozhin would leave for Belarus, and the criminal case would be dropped.
Earlier today, Lukashenko confirmed that Prigozhin is in Belarus.
Source: Rosbalt
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