{"id":2010850,"date":"2023-08-24T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-praises-prigozhin-following-death-successful-businessman\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:54:53","slug":"vladimir-putin-praises-prigozhin-following-death-successful-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-praises-prigozhin-following-death-successful-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin hails Prigozhin as accomplished entrepreneur after passing."},"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\">16<\/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%2Fvladimir-putin-praises-prigozhin-following-death-successful-businessman%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=2010850&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 \u2064Putin&#8217;s Tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/h2>\n<p>Russian\u200d President \u2063Vladimir Putin delivered his first public comments on the death of \u2062Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, giving him \u200dmeasured praise as a &#8220;successful businessman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin was \u200cattending a commemoration ceremony for the\u200b 80th anniversary of \u2063the titanic World War\u200b II Battle of Kursk when \u2063Prigozhin\u200c was killed \u200dafter\u2063 his plane\u2062 crashed, with\u2062 nine others \u2064on\u2063 board. Speaking with\u2064 reporters Thursday at\u2064 the Kremlin alongside Denis Pushilin, the head \u2064of the government of the \u200dpro-Russia \u200cDonetsk \u2063People&#8217;s \u2062Republic, Putin gave his first address \u200cregarding the mercenary leader&#8217;s death, amid \u2064widespread speculation \u200dit \u200dwas Putin who engineered\u200d the downing \u200bof the \u2063aircraft.<\/p>\n<h3>Putin&#8217;s Conciliatory Tone<\/h3>\n<p>Putin decided to \u2063take \u2064a mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ontario-imposes-state-of-emergency-hours-after-report-it-considered-dropping-mandates\/\" title=\"Ontario Imposes 'State of Emergency' Hours After Report It Considered Dropping Mandates\">conciliatory tone<\/a>, praising his tact as a businessman and Russian, while heaping praise on Wagner, despite its June\u2063 mutiny.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I offer my condolences\u200b to the families of \u2063all who\u2064 perished,&#8221; Putin said.\u200d &#8220;Something like this is always\u2063 a \u2062tragedy,\u2062 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-praises-prigozhin-following-death-successful-businessman\/\" title=\"Putin hails Prigozhin as accomplished entrepreneur after passing.\">preliminary data\u200c suggests<\/a> that Wagner fighters were also on \u200cboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He went on to praise Wagner&#8217;s accomplishments during the \u2064war in Ukraine, noting that the\u2064 group&#8217;s \u2064fighters &#8220;made a real contribution to our mutual \u2063fight against the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. We know, remember, and will never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Russian \u2064government has repeatedly claimed that the Ukrainian government is neo-Nazi in nature and\u2063 used \u200bit\u2063 as an excuse \u200bfor its invasion last year, under the \u200dguise of &#8220;denazification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Prigozhin I&#8217;ve known for a \u2064long time \u200d&#8230;\u2063 he was a person with a difficult fate, he had made some\u200d serious mistakes in his life but he also achieved the necessary results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He \u200dwas a talented person, a talented businessman, he worked not only in\u2064 our country \u200bwith results but also abroad,&#8221; he continued, going \u2063on to\u2063 allude \u2064to his \u200bbusiness ventures\u2062 in Africa. He said that Prigozhin had only returned from \u2062meeting with officials in Africa on \u200dthe day of his death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-requiring-proof-of-vaccination-is-a-slippery-slope\/\" title=\"Opinion: Requiring Proof Of Vaccination Is A Slippery Slope\">widely held belief<\/a> both within and outside \u200dof Russia that it\u200c was Putin who assassinated Prigozhin, the Russian president offered\u2063 no hints of involvement, saying only that an investigation\u200b of the incident has already \u2064begun.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It will be investigated fully and until \u200dthe\u200c end. I have no doubt about that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will see what the investigation reveals in the near \u200cfuture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin was one of Putin&#8217;s closest allies\u200c for years, \u2062loyally serving \u2062as head of the\u2064 Wagner mercenary\u2064 group, which gained \u2063renewed fame during the war in Ukraine \u200cdue to its conquest of \u2064the city of Bakhmut. Near the end of the battle,\u2062 Prigozhin became increasingly openly critical of the general staff, culminating in an armed mutiny by the group in June. After seizing several cities\u200c unopposed, the mutiny was abruptly aborted just hours from Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin was denounced as a\u200c traitor by Putin during the mutiny, but the two had reportedly met \u2064since, while Wagner continued to operate across Africa and\u200b in Belarus. Its future amid its commander&#8217;s\u200d death \u2062is \u2063uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his first remarks on the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief, during a ceremony commemorating the Battle of Kursk. 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