Members of Moscow’s elite said they were steeling themselves for a sweeping investigation into last weekend’s mercenary rebellion with officials likely to be interrogated on their links to Wagner paramilitary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
RIGA, Latvia — The Kremlin was in overdrive on Thursday striving to consolidate control and project an image of normalcy as members of Moscow’s elite said they were steeling themselves for a sweeping investigation into last weekend’s mercenary rebellion with officials likely to be interrogated on their links to Wagner paramilitary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
Amid a blizzard of rumors that Surovikin had been out of contact since Saturday when he recorded a video urging Prigozhin to halt the rebellion, his daughter said she was in contact with him and “nothing happened to him.”Surovikina told Baza that her father was often not in the public eye. “When did he make daily appearances in the media? He never used to make daily public statements,” Surovikina told Baza. “As far as I understand, everything is going the way it usually goes.
“Definitely there will be questions to everyone in this vertical of military and special service people — who cooperated with Prigozhin, were confronted with Prigozhin, or looked after Prigozhin or overlooked what he was doing. Whose reaction was in due time and whose reaction was not in due time?” Remchukov said in a phone interview from Moscow.
“Everyone who was close to Prigozhin are being investigated,” Markov said. “I am sure that at least several hundred people are being investigated. It is a very large-scale investigation. The aim is to get information about who in reality took part or did not take part, to find out who took part in the betrayal, who took part in some kind of negotiations and should have told the authorities about it.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday declined to comment on whether there was a need to punish some officials in the wake of the rebellion. The Kremlin has been trying to cement the narrative that Russian society united around Putin. But questions persist about why the Russian president failed to control the situation in the run-up to the rebellion. His refusal to communicate with Prigozhin appears to have been one factor.
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