2023-04-22 01:37:00
The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims that the son of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov fought in Ukraine as part of this paramilitary group. About this Prigogine declared in a conversation with Alexander Simonov, an employee of RIA FAN.
“Of all my acquaintances, one person is Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov, who at one time was known as a complete liberal – his son, who lived part of his life in America, in my opinion, if I’m not mistaken, or in England … He came and said:“ Take him as a simple gunner “. By the way, it worked perfectly. A simple gunner, knee-deep in mud, shit, on the Hurricane. Few people know about it,” Prigozhin said. He did not provide other details.
Prigozhin did not specify the name of Peskov’s son, who, according to him, served in the PMC. Prigozhin’s description fits the eldest son of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Choles, who lived in the UK for 10 years and returned to Russia in 2011-2012.
Meduza asked Dmitry Peskov in a telegram whether he really asked Yevgeny Prigozhin to take his son to serve in the Wagner PMC and he served under a contract with this PMC. Peskov read the question and did not answer.
In 2017, the team of Russian politician Alexei Navalny released an investigation about Nikolai Chowles, the eldest son of Peskov, who bears the name of his stepfather. In the UK, where Choles lived for about a decade, he was tried for two assaults and robbery, and spent more than a year in prison, the investigation alleged. Sam Choles saidthat this investigation is a “nightmare”, “horror” and “provocation”.
In March 2022, Nicholas Chowles came under US sanctions following a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In September 2022, an associate of Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Nizovtsev, under the guise of a military commissar, got through to his son Peskov and asked if he was ready to fight in Ukraine. Nikolai Chowles refused to come to the recruiting office, saying that if “you have to defend the Motherland, don’t worry, I’ll be with you.” Dmitry Peskov then actually confirmed that Navalny’s associates were talking to his son, but stated that the “semantic part” had been cut out of the recording.
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