Odd news from the Kremlin about Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin:

 Odd news from the Kremlin about Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin:

Yevgeny Prigozhin: When asked about Prigozhin's location, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed it.

Despite reports that the leader of the Wagner organisation, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was exiled in Belarus after his failed uprising against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Belarusian Governor Aleksandr Lukashenko confirmed that Prigozhin was in Russia. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, dismissed the inquiry concerning Prigozhin's location. "We don't watch his every move. We are unable to do so and do not wish to," he stated.

Yevgeny Prigozhin hasn't appeared in front of the public since the uprising about two weeks ago. His mercenaries marched on Moscow, but the uprising was put down the next day when Aleksandr Lukashenko mediated a compromise that involved Prigozhin moving to Belarus.

It's fantastic that the Russian government doesn't give a damn about someone who rebelled against them with weapons. So where precisely is he now? With the resources, tools, and mercenaries from Wagner? An advisor to Ukraine's interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, tweeted.

Prigozhin's office and "palace" were the subject of images and videos released by Russian state media, which claimed that the raid turned up many bogus passports that belonged to Prigozhin, pictures of him sporting various wigs, and gold.

What did the Kremlin's position on Prigozhin experts say?

According to Mark N. Katz, a professor at George Mason University, "even with Dmitry Peskov's claim to the contrary, I am confident that the Kremlin is quite capable of tracking Prigozhin's motion and that this realises exactly where he is at all times." Katz continued, "I think Peskov, and the Putin regime more generally, is trying to signal that Prigozhin isn't such an important danger anymore. Maybe the following week, Peskov will start asserting that the reports of the mutiny were all Western propaganda and that there wasn't actually any mutiny at all.

According to Cornell assistant professor of history David Silbey, the Russians are "clearly trying to downplay" the significance of Prigozhin.

They obviously have the ability to watch over Prigozhin, and they are undoubtedly doing so as he wanders between the two nations. David Silbey said, "The amazing thing for me is that Prigozhin felt safe travelling back to Russia without, evidently, an overpowering worry that he would be killed. It's a way of dismissing him—he's old news.