Food And Catering BonanzaRussia paid the Wagner group $1bn in the last year, Putin said, in an apparent attempt to take full credit for earlier battlefield successes of the mercenaries. The Russian president said the group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, was entirely financed by the Russian state between May 2022 and May 2023. The Wagner chief made almost as much during the same period from his food and catering business, Mr Putin said at a meeting with security forces.
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