'I would watch out…': Joe Biden jokes about Wagner boss being poisoned by Putin | World News

US president Joe Biden mentioned he was uncertain the place Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was however joked that the mercenary boss may very well be poisoned. "If I have been he, I’d watch out what I ate. I’d be retaining my eye on my menu," Joe Biden mentioned, in response to a White Home transcript. Yevgeny Prigozhin has not been publicly seen since leaving the Russian metropolis of Rostov on June 24.

“However all kidding apart...I do not suppose any of us know for positive what the way forward for Prigozhin is in Russia,” he mentioned. This comes as particulars of Russian president Vladimir Putin's assembly with Wagner mercenaries emerged. The Russian chief had provided Wagner mercenaries the chance to maintain combating simply days after their failed mutiny however instructed Yevgeny Prigozhin be moved apart in favour of a special commander, Kommersant newspaper reported.

The Kremlin mentioned that Vladimir Putin had held talks with Wagner commanders and Prigozhin at a gathering on June 29, 5 days after the mutiny the place the mercenaries reaffirmed their loyalty to the Russian president.

However Kommersant reported that Vladimir Putin mentioned, "Wagner doesn't exist. There isn't any legislation on personal army organisations. It simply does not exist.”

The Kremlin defined the Russian president's feedback saying that there was no authorized entity named Wagner and the authorized standing of such corporations was a sophisticated one. Vladimir Putin then instructed a number of choices for them to proceed combating, it was reported.

“All of them may have gathered in a single place and continued to serve. And nothing would have modified for them. They'd have been led by the identical one that had been their actual commander all that point,” the Russian president mentioned.