Prigozhin made serious mistakes - Putin

Putin pays tribute to the man who was once known as his "chef" due to lucrative contracts he had to supply food to the Kremlin.

"I have known Prigozhin for a long time, since the beginning of the 1990s," Putin says in his televised address.

In an apparent reference to Wagner's aborted mutiny in June, Putin continues: "This was a person with a complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in life, but also sought to achieve the necessary results - both for himself and at time when I asked him to, for the common cause, such as in these recent months."

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