PMCs "Wagner"

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin in the Kremlin. According to the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov (pictured), the meeting took place on June 29 and lasted almost three hours.

French media, citing Western intelligence data, reported that shortly after the armed mutiny of the Wagner PMCs, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the head of the PMCs, Yevgeny Prigozhin (pictured).

In Moscow, employees of a number of police departments have raised their salaries by 20-50 thousand rubles a month.

State Duma deputy Alexei Chepa told reporters that some of the fighters of the Wagner PMCs continue to be in Africa, where they provide military assistance to the authorities.

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov (pictured) commented on the publications of some media outlets, which claimed that the deputy commander of the united group of Russian troops, Sergey Surovikin, allegedly could have known in advance about the upcoming armed rebellion.

The State Duma proposed to ban officials from traveling outside the Russian Federation in the event of the introduction of a counter-terrorism operation regime in the regions.

On June 24, the Russian authorities did not officially request assistance from the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) because of the attempted armed mutiny of the Wagner PMCs.

The Ukrainian authorities failed to gain an advantage on the battlefield during the mutiny of the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin (pictured), writes the American edition of The New York Times (NYT).

As of the morning of June 26, the criminal case on the organization of an armed rebellion under Article 279 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against the head of the Wagner Private security Company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had not been terminated. The investigation is continued by the investigators of the office of criminal investigations of FSB of Russia.

Russian banks began to reduce exchange rates, which rose sharply on June 24 due to reports of the beginning of an armed mutiny of the Wagner PMCs.

Military commander Yevgeny Poddubny published a photo of the wreckage of the Ka-52 helicopter of the Russian Armed Forces, shot down by soldiers of the Wagner PMCs in the Voronezh region.