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Barney Davis

Nikolai Peskov: Putin spokesman’s son ‘joined Wagner private army in Ukraine’

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman’s son has claimed that he fought as an artilleryman in Ukraine for the Wagner mercenary force.

Nikolai Peskov, the 33-year-old son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, told the privately-owned newspaper that he had served in Ukraine, a rare public example of the son of a senior Russian official fighting in the war.

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