Igor Zuev referred to the deceased Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a speech in Irkutsk.
"They have beaten them and they will beat them," said Zuev, who, according to the news outlet Sirena, had volunteered to fight in the war in Ukraine in August 2022 but got wounded.
Zuev was speaking at an event on Saturday to mark those killed in Ukraine. The vice speaker of Irkutsk's legislative assembly, Larisa Yegorova, also praised Prigozhin's mercenary group, which has played a key role in Ukraine. Following Prigozhin's death, many unanswered questions remain over what will happen to the Wagner group he founded which is the Kremlin's foothold in Africa.
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