A top member of Russia's elite says he spent nearly six months with troops fighting Ukraine's army.
Nikolai Peskov did not reveal where exactly he had served in what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.After joining the group with fake documents, he said, Mr Peskov's son underwent a three-week training course.
According to Mr Prigozhin, Dmitry Peskov had asked him to "take [Nikolai] on as a simple artilleryman".Nikolai Peskov said he received a medal for bravery this year after "all of my team accomplished a feat... We had one interesting sortie - I can't say more than that." Journalist Dmitry Nizovtsev, an associate of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, posed as a military recruitment officer in a phone call to Nikolai Peskov. Speaking in an aggressive tone, Nizovtsev asked him why he had not shown up at a Moscow call-up centre."I'm going to take this matter to another level," he said. "I basically need to know what's going on and what my rights are.
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