Putin revealed on Tuesday Russia spent billions on Prigozhin and his mercenaries

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He then said that he hopes "no one stole anything — or, let's say, didn't steal much."
Putin's comment seems to suggest some theft is expected, highlighting the state of corruption in Russia.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday Moscow spent billions on Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries, he quipped he hopes they "didn't steal much" in a telling comment on the corruption running rampant in Russia.

In a meeting just days after Prigozhin called off his rebellion against the Russian Ministry of Defense and his march on Moscow, Putin said that Russia had fully financed Wagner operations between May 2022 and May 2023.

During much of that time, Wagner's paramilitary forces were engaged in costly, high-intensity warfare in Ukraine, particularly in Bakhmut, while the group's leader publicly feuded with the defense ministry, specifically the defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, and Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff and head of war operations in Ukraine.

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A former Russian air force lieutenant who later worked as an analyst for state media before leaving the country over the war in Ukraine told The New York Times last year, just a few months into the war in Ukraine, "it is impossible to imagine the scale of lies inside the military."

The man described Russian commanders faking military exercises and then pocketing funds and contractors delivering sub-par systems to skim cash from dedicated budget allocations.

The veteran of the Russian military, Gleb Irisov, told The Times that he saw air defense systems that couldn't even shoot down small drones, military vehicles that would break down after only a couple of years, and parts on fighter jets that would troublingly melt at supersonic speeds.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Moscow had paid the Wagner Group around $1 billion over the past year.

Putin's admission of funding the mercenary group follows Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's weekend rebellion against Russia. The mercenary boss claimed Russia's military had killed about 30 Wagner troops in a missile strike, and he ordered his men to march on Moscow. The brief mutiny ended after peace was brokered on the agreement that Kremlin charges would be dropped against Prigozhin if he agreed to go into exile in Belarus.

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