Dmitry Peskov with his son Nikolai. Photo: Social networks.
Nikolai Peskov, son of Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of Russia, confirmed that he served in the Wagner PMC «in the zone of the special military operation, the website KP.RU reports. Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, said this earlier.
«It was my initiative. And it was absolutely my decision,» he told reporters.
Nikolai explained that he had turned to father, because he did not know how to properly contact the PMC «Wagner» and he helped in this.
He added that he decided to go to the NWO zone because he felt he had an obligation to participate in order to help everyone who was there. Nikolai says that he could not sit when his friends went there.
According to Nikolai Peskov, his father and other family members asked if he understood where he was going to go, but having heard an affirmative answer, they did not dissuade.
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As for the PMC «Wagner», Nikolai said that the staff there was friendly and they accepted him normally, but they did not know who he was, because he went under a different name.
Nikolai Peskov stayed in the troops a little less than six months. He said that he rarely managed to call his wife and father and say that everything was fine with him. At the same time, Nikolai confirmed that he was scared in the war zone. At the same time, he received the medal «For Courage» for his service.
«I am insanely proud of everyone who is there now, all the guys are doing a tremendous job. And I think that all the tasks set will be completed. I am in this I am convinced,” concluded Nikolai Peskov.