BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 03:17:00
Unconditionally. our russia editor steve rosenberg has more. on the day of the mutiny, vladimir putin had called the organisers "traitors, who had stabbed russia "in the back", and he promised they would be punished. five days later, goodness me, he was sitting down with them in the kremlin, with yevgeny prigozhin, with the commanders of wagner, chatting about what had happened. so what does this tell us about the relationship between wagner and the kremlin? well, we knew they were close — very close. putin had admitted that the state has been financing wagner, so was this three—hour meeti...