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Charles Maynes

Putin met Wagner leader Prigozhin days after failed uprising

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday. (Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and nearly three dozen of his mercenary commanders for talks in Moscow late last month — injecting new questions over the future of the mercenary force following a failed uprising against Russia's military leadership.

"The meeting took place in the Kremlin on June 29th and lasted almost three hours," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in his daily call with them.

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