MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax) - The Kremlin has called the reports of certain Western media outlets alleging that Gen. Sergei Surovikin was aware of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny plot speculative.
"There will be a lot of speculation, conjecture and so on of various kinds around these events. I believe this is one such example," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to a question from the press.
As to whether the presence of special military operation participants among the military and law enforcement officers who countered the mutiny was accidental, Peskov said, "This is neither accidental nor coincidental. It's a fact and a duty. The army, the people, everyone stood by the president."
Journalists also asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin knew that two sons and a grandson of Russian National Guard head Viktor Zolotov served in this agency. "Of course, he knows," Peskov said.
The events involving the Wagner Group, defined by Russian law enforcement agencies as an attempted mutiny, took place in Russia on June 23-24.