{"id":1973084,"date":"2023-07-14T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-group-does-not-exist-putin-insists-following-short-lived-mutiny\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T17:13:24","slug":"wagner-group-does-not-exist-putin-insists-following-short-lived-mutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-group-does-not-exist-putin-insists-following-short-lived-mutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin denies existence of Wagner Group after brief mutiny."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwagner-group-does-not-exist-putin-insists-following-short-lived-mutiny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1973084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian President Putin Denies Existence of Wagner Group<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprising statement, declaring that the notorious Wagner Group no longer exists. This comes just weeks after the group&#8217;s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally, led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-uses-failed-russia-coup-to-knock-bombshell-biden-scandal-off-the-front-page\/\" title=\"Media diverts attention from bombshell Biden scandal with failed Russia 'coup'.\">short-lived mutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;On the one hand, at a meeting with them, I gave an assessment of what they did on the battlefield, and on the other hand, what they did during the events of June 24th,&#8221; Putin told Russian media outlet Kommersant. &#8220;Third, he showed possible options for the further passage of their service, including combat use. That&#8217;s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite Putin&#8217;s denial, the Russian leader emphasized that while the group may not legally exist, it is still a matter that needs to be addressed by the State Duma and the government.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There is a group, but legally does not exist!&#8221; the president repeated. &#8220;This is a separate issue related to real legalization. But this is a question that should be discussed in the State Duma, in the government. Difficult question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wagner-group-does-not-exist-putin-insists-following-short-lived-mutiny\/\" title=\"Putin denies existence of Wagner Group after brief mutiny.\">attempted rebellion involved briefly taking control<\/a> of the city of Rostov-on-Don and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-kremlin-claims-putin-met-with-prigozhin-just-days-after-attempted-mutiny\/\" title=\"Kremlin asserts Putin's meeting with Prigozhin shortly after failed coup in Russia.\">military headquarters building<\/a>. It is believed that he had planned to apprehend Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, both of whom he had publicly criticized for months. However, his plans were foiled when Russian intelligence officials uncovered the plot.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting with the Wagner forces, Putin offered them the opportunity to continue their service within the Russian military.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They could all gather in one place and continue to serve,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;And nothing would have changed for them. They would be led by the same person who had been their real commander all along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to the mutiny, top Russian defense leaders had been seeking to disband the Wagner force and integrate them into the Russian military. The current whereabouts of Prigozhin remain unknown.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mutiny. During the meeting, Putin stated that the Wagner Group no longer exists, contradicting its founder&#8217;s recent actions. This declaration comes as a surprise, considering Prigozhin&#8217;s close ties to Putin in the past. The fate of the controversial private military company remains uncertain following Putin&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1973085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}