Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: Frame from video.
Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview with military correspondent Alexander Simonov that the son of Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Nikolai, fought in the Wagner PMC. Simonov published the corresponding video with Prigozhin's story on his Telegram channel «Callsign Bruce».
Prigozhin emphasized that he was talking about this for the first time. According to him, of all his acquaintances, only one person, Dmitry Peskov, «who at one time passed for a complete liberal,» sent his son to fight.
«He came and said -» take him as a simple artilleryman, «says Prigozhin in the published video.
«He worked absolutely fine, knee-deep in mud, in shit on the Hurricane, Prigozhin added.
Let us recall that 33-year-old Nikolai Peskov bore the surname Choles until 2019. He was born in the marriage of Dmitry Peskov to Anastasia Budyonny, the granddaughter of the Soviet military leader Semyon Budyonny. In the 90s, he moved with his mother to the UK, then returned to Russia. Is an entrepreneur.