{"id":2009810,"date":"2023-08-23T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-beams-at-war-memorial-gala-as-wagner-chief-prigozhin-dies-in-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:21:37","slug":"putin-beams-at-war-memorial-gala-as-wagner-chief-prigozhin-dies-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-beams-at-war-memorial-gala-as-wagner-chief-prigozhin-dies-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin smiles at war memorial event as Wagner leader Prigozhin perishes in plane accident."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fputin-beams-at-war-memorial-gala-as-wagner-chief-prigozhin-dies-in-plane-crash%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=2009810&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 Vladimir Putin Commemorates Battle of Kursk\u200b Anniversary<\/h2>\n<p>Russian President\u200b Vladimir Putin marked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-police-apologise-after-officers-did-push-ups-on-holocaust-memorial\/\" title=\"German Police Apologise After Officers Did Push-Ups on Holocaust Memorial\">80th anniversary<\/a> of the \u2062Battle of Kursk on Wednesday by attending a\u200d memorial concert,\u200b just as\u2062 Russian \u2062authorities announced that Wagner Group\u2063 chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died in \u200da plane crash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Battle for Kursk lasted \u2062almost \u200btwo months,\u201d Putin told a crowd at the unveiling of a new war memorial. \u201cWe will never forget how fiercely the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-aps-empty-gesture\/\" title=\"The AP\u2019s Empty Gesture\">tank crews<\/a>, infantry, pilots, sappers, and gunners, all those who \u2063fought \u200cfor victory in\u2062 the\u200d Battle of Kursk, crushed the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Prigozhin&#8217;s Rebellion \u200cand Putin&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Two months is \u200calso the amount of time that Prigozhin lived after launching his quick and abortive uprising \u200con June 23, \u2063an operation that he cast as an act of targeted insubordination against \u2063Russian defense officials. Putin and Belarusian\u200d dictator Alexander Lukashenko \u200dorchestrated an agreement to avoid a bloody confrontation in Moscow, but only after Putin and \u200bhis colleagues \u200cdenounced Prigozhin\u200c for \u200cleading an \u201carmed mutiny\u201d against Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely congratulate all people of Russia on this event, and, of \u2062course,\u200c primarily our dear veterans \u2063and, with special feeling, the people of the\u200d Kursk, Belgorod, Oryol,\u2064 and Voronezh regions,&#8221;\u2064 Putin said, in reference to the Second World War battle.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin apparently believed \u2062that,\u2062 despite his rebellion, he remained an important part of \u200cRussia&#8217;s\u2063 power structure, as he \u2064released a video on \u200bMonday boasting of his contributions to Russian\u200c power in Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPMC Wagner \u2026 \u2064makes Russia \u200beven greater on all continents, and Africa more free,\u201d Prigozhin said. \u201cWe\u2019re\u200b recruiting real\u200c heroes and \u200ccontinue to carry\u2063 out the tasks that have been \u2062set and that \u200bwe promised to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin, for his \u200cpart, welcomed Prigozhin and\u2064 other Wagner\u200c Group\u2063 commanders to the Kremlin less than a week after the uprising, which his team characterized as a valuable opportunity to clear the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commanders themselves outlined \u2064their version of \u2062events, emphasizing that \u2063they are soldiers and\u2063 staunch supporters \u2063of the head of state \u200cand the supreme\u2063 commander-in-chief,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when Putin\u2019s \u2062team acknowledged the encounter on July 10. &#8220;They \u2064also said that they are ready to continue \u2064fighting for the motherland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet the festering acrimony\u2064 had \u2063already surfaced days earlier, as some Russian authorities apparently leaked a series of embarrassing photos of Prigozhin following a raid on his home \u200bin St. Petersburg. One picture, incidentally, indicated\u2064 that the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-beams-at-war-memorial-gala-as-wagner-chief-prigozhin-dies-in-plane-crash\/\" title=\"Putin smiles at war memorial event as Wagner leader Prigozhin perishes in plane accident.\">mercenary chief received<\/a> \u2064a \u201cHero of \u2062Russia\u201d \u2064award from Putin in June 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>Putin Honors \u200bTank \u2063Crew&#8217;s Performance in Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>If \u200bRussia lost one\u200d of its putative heroes when Prigozhin\u2019s\u2063 plane went down, it\u2019s also the case that Putin made three\u2062 more on \u200dWednesday, when he applauded a tank crew\u2019s performance during the war \u2062in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Dedication to the \u2064homeland, dedication to the military oath, unite all participants\u2064 of the special\u2062 military operation,\u201d Putin said Wednesday. \u201cToday, awards will be\u2062 presented to the most distinguished servicemen of the 5th Army\u2019s 127th\u200c Motor Rifle Division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a memorial concert to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk. Meanwhile, authorities announced the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of Wagner Group, in a plane crash. Putin highlighted the battle&#8217;s duration of nearly two months during the unveiling of a war memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009811,"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-2009810","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\/2009810","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=2009810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}