Ms Pamfilova told Putin during the meeting: “Since the situation is really difficult, anything can happen.” The regions are set to hold regional and municipal elections on September 10, along with the rest of the Russian Federation. Ukraine says the annexation is illegal and void. Putin says all four regions are now part of Russia, after Moscow unilaterally annexed them last year.

Russia is set to hold local elections in the four Ukrainian regions that are controlled by Moscow in September, but could cancel them if the situation worsened in the areas, the head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) has said.Įlla Pamfilova met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, and said that elections were planned for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk’s People’s Republic, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in September.

The Wagner chief founder did not say anything as to his whereabouts or future plans. Prigozhin’s last audio message was released on the afternoon of June 26 via the press service of his Concord catering company. In the nearest future, I’m sure, you will see our victories on the front line. And I think that we achieved a lot of this. I want you to understand: our march for justice was aimed at the fight against traitors and mobilisation of our society.

Prigozhin can purportedly be heard saying: “Today, we need your support like never before. The Grey Zone, a Russian pro-war Telegram channel linked to Prigozhin, shared an audio message purportedly from the Wagner chief on Monday, in which he thanked supporters and said that the so-called march for justice was “aimed at the fight against traitors and mobilisation of our society.” Yevgeny Priogzhin has reportedly recorded an audio message for the first time since leaving Russia for Belarus following his failed mutiny, telling supporters that they will see “our victories on the frontline” in the “nearest future.”

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