{"id":2011342,"date":"2023-08-24T20:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-responds-after-prigozhin-killed-following-failed-coup-attempt-made-serious-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T20:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T00:12:47","slug":"putin-responds-after-prigozhin-killed-following-failed-coup-attempt-made-serious-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-responds-after-prigozhin-killed-following-failed-coup-attempt-made-serious-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin acknowledges Prigozhin&#8217;s death after failed coup: &#8216;He made grave errors&#8217;"},"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\">22<\/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-responds-after-prigozhin-killed-following-failed-coup-attempt-made-serious-mistakes%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=2011342&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 Responds to Death of Wagner \u2062Group Leader<\/h2>\n<p>Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> responded on Thursday to \u2062the news that Wagner \u200cparamilitary group leader\u200b Yevgeny Prigozhin, who failed in his attempt to overthrow the Russian government back\u2064 in June, was killed in a plane crash this week, \u2063saying that Prigozhin made \u201cserious mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video showed the plane that Prigozhin \u200bwas on falling\u200b from the sky over Russia with a plume of \u200dwhite smoke hanging in \u2063the area where an explosion happened that caused the crash.<\/p>\n<h3>Putin&#8217;s Reflection\u2062 on Prigozhin<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI knew\u2063 Prigozhin for a very \u200dlong time, since \u2062the early \u201990s,\u201d Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2023\/8\/24\/russia-ukraine-war-live-wagner-chief-prigozhin-reported-dead-in-jet-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cHe was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in \u200bhis\u200b life, but he achieved the right results. He was a talented person, a talented businessman, he worked not only\u2063 in our country, and worked with results, but also abroad, in Africa, \u2062in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was involved there with oil, gas, precious\u2062 metals and\u2064 stones,\u201d he said. \u201cAs far as I know, he just \u200dreturned yesterday from Africa. He met some officials here. But what is quite definite \u2014 the head of the Investigative Committee reported \u2063to me this morning \u2014 \u200dis\u200c they have \u200balready begun a preliminary investigation into this event. And it will be carried out in full, and taken\u2062 right to \u2064the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethically-questionable-aoc-demands-justice-thomas-be-impeached-over-allegations-of-questionable-ethics\/\" title=\"Ethically Questionable AOC Demands Justice Thomas Be Impeached Over Allegations Of Questionable Ethics\">private jet owned<\/a> by Prigozhin was just\u200b shot down by Russian air defenses over Tver.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10 people onboard have been killed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mUCHws77Y0\">pic.twitter.com\/mUCHws77Y0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visegr\u00e1d 24 (@visegrad24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visegrad24\/status\/1694394927948415203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News of \u2063Prigozhin\u2019s death comes just a few hours after Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-video-catches-moment-prigozhins-plane-falls-from-sky-slams-into-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed<\/a> General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed \u201cGeneral Armageddon,\u201d as head of the country\u2019s air force after he went missing during the attempted coup\u200b and was accused by\u2062 some \u2062of playing a role\u2064 in it.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that a top Russian official said on background: \u201cEx-chief of the Russian Air and Space Forces\u2062 Sergei Surovikin has now been relieved of his post, while Colonel-General\u200b Viktor Afzalov, head of the main staff of the Air Force, is temporarily acting as commander-in-chief \u200cof the Air Force\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin served nearly a decade \u200din prison after being convicted of \u201cassault, robbery, and fraud\u201d in 1981, according to Insider. After being released from prison, he made his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash\/\" title=\"Russian warlord Prigozhin, who attempted to overthrow Putin, reportedly killed in plane crash.\">living selling hot dogs<\/a> on street corners and\u2062 eventually started a catering business, where he\u2062 eventually met Russian President Vladimir\u200b Putin \u2014\u200d then a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-are-yevgeny-prigozhin-and-wagner\/\" title=\"Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner?\">low-level government official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His company, Concord Catering, started receiving \u2063contracts from\u200b the \u200bRussian government \u2064in \u200dthe mid-to-late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wall Street Journal documentary, the Russian government laundered money to Prigozhin through his catering company, which \u2064he eventually used to start Wagner \u2014 initially a small group of only a few hundred former Russian soldiers who were \u200dhired to do Russia\u2019s bidding in Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Having Wagner do Russia\u2019s \u200dbidding \u2064gave the Russian government plausible\u200b deniability as the group engaged in dirty work. Russian government contracts to Concord Catering have reportedly been estimated to be well into the billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>An expert\u200c on Wagner told The Wall Street Journal that it is best\u2062 to think of the group as a \u201cstate-backed paramilitary cartel.\u201d \u200cThe group is accused of massacring and raping civilians and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patagonia-founder-gives-away-3-billion-company-will-use-all-profits-to-fight-climate-change-2\/\" title=\"Patagonia Founder Gives Away  Billion Company, Will Use All Profits To Fight Climate Change\">exploiting natural resources<\/a> in poor countries with dire security \u200csituations. The\u200c resources \u2014 commodities like gold, oil,\u2063 and gas \u2014 go back to\u2063 the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2063 operates in South America,\u200c Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal said that it identified 64 companies that are linked to Wagner and are used as front companies to\u2062 move money and assets. The report said that the Kremlin is connected\u200d to all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, who died in a recent plane crash. Putin acknowledged Prigozhin&#8217;s &#8220;serious mistakes&#8221; after his failed attempt to overthrow the Russian government in June. Video footage captured the plane&#8217;s tragic descent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2011343,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2011342","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}