Continuing the Fractured Fairy Tale, the Chef positions himself as an ‘everyman for the Motherland.” Part of his plan for the Russian Presidency while including Peskov.
Prigozhin about the service of Peskov‘s son in the Wagner PMC hoping to drive conscription.
1. I applied to Wagner for an attack aircraft. It was assigned to the Hurricane MLRS loaders of the artillery battalion of the Wagner PMC since my daddy did not want me on the front lines or in a role leading to certain death. Passed 3 weeks of training at the base in Molkino so I could load artillery shells.
2. Served the entire term of the contract – 6 months. There were no significant complaints about him. Some complaints but nothing significant.
3. He didn’t tell anyone that he was Peskov’s son (only Prigozhin and the head of the personnel department of the PMC were aware of it). He served as an ordinary artillery loader, so he did not enjoy any special privileges. Only the one at the beginning, when denied a role in attack aircraft. He was a loader for a BM-27 Uragan self-propelled 220-mm multiple rocket launcher system that can be over 40 miles away from targets.
Choles declined to report to the draft office but assured Nizovtsev: “If I have to defend the motherland, don’t worry, I’ll be there.” When pressed for a more definite answer, Choles said he’d deal with the issue “on a different level.”
4. Prigozhin correctly points out that such an attitude towards the elites has formed in society that the son of a high-ranking person fighting at the front is perceived as an oxymoron and a break in the pattern. Yet Peskov’s son did not serve on the front since artillery is positioned well back from the front. As a matter of fact, he did not even see a Ukrainian during his six month tour.
Peskov’s son who bears his stepfather’s name and has lived in the U.K. for 10 years, returning to Russia around 2011–2012 after spending a year in a British prison for assault and robbery.
Nikolay Peskov, 33, was caught in a sting by journalists last year saying he would pull strings to avoid conscription. Instead, the British-educated son of Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov is ordered by his father to serve as artillery loader in Putin’s war in Ukraine. Daddy pulled strings to ensure no direct contact would occur.
The son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has been accused of falsely claiming to have been fighting in Ukraine, when he was actually driving his luxury Tesla around Moscow, reports say.
Peskov’s son, Nikolai Choles, told Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in an interview published on Saturday that he had fought in the Wagner Group.
The Russian mercenary outfit has played a key role in some of the most ferocious fighting in Ukraine, and the newspaper claims Choles was decorated while serving as an artilleryman for six months under an assumed name.
“It was on my initiative,” Nikolai said in an interview. “I considered it my duty,” claiming that his father was proud of him for having served.
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