Ex-Prigozhin aide to oversee Ukraine volunteer fighters

Ex-Prigozhin aide to oversee Ukraine volunteer fighters – Kremlin

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 29, 2023 9:25 pm

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has tasked a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin statement on Friday.

'At the last meeting we talked about you overseeing the formation of volunteer units that can carry out various tasks, first and foremost of course in the zone of the special military operation,' Putin was quoted as saying to Andrei Troshev, using Moscow's name for its offensive in Ukraine.

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