The founder of the private military company “Wagner”, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that Nikolai, the son of the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, served in the PMC under false documents. This is specified telegraph channel businessman’s press office.
According to him, Dmitry Peskov turned to him for advice in the summer.
“His son [Николай] I was going to war, and it was useless to deter him from it. Entrepreneur, I did not advise him to go to the Ministry of Defense, because there he would sit at headquarters or go to the “meat”.
He added that he took Nikolai Peskov “for himself” and changed his last name, first name and surname. Prigogine said that only she and the head of the personnel department knew about it. According to him, the son of the Kremlin representative was at first trained as a “navigator”, but later he was made a member of the Uragan MLRS calculation. Six months later, Peskov Jr. went on vacation. Prigozhin stated that none of the Hurricane crew knew who their colleagues were.
Evgeny Prigozhin, former head of Wagner PMC declarationThat the 33-year-old son of Nikolai, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, served as an ordinary gunner in his private military company.
In September last year, Dmitry Peskov refuted the media reported that his son Nikolai refused to appear on the draft board.