Russian paper portrays Putin endeavor to partition Prigozhin from his Wagner contenders

Vladimir Putin has recommended that he's made a split between senior Wagner warriors and the head of the hired fighter bunch Yevgeny Prigozhin, as per a report in the Kommersant paper.

The paper was covering a gathering held by the Russian chief five days after the Wagner insubordination imploded toward the finish of June - - a gathering went to by Prigozhin and a few dozen senior Wagner warriors.

Putin let the hired soldiers know that among the decisions before them was proceeding to battle under their immediate leader, a man going by the call sign, "Sedoy," signifying "Silver hair," as per Kommersant.

"Nothing would have changed for them. They would be driven by a similar individual who has been their genuine commandant from the start," Putin had told the gathering, Kommersant revealed.

"Also, what happened then?" the Kommersant correspondent says he asked the Russian chief.

"Many individuals gestured [affirmatively] when that's what I said," Putin answered.

Prigozhin, be that as it may - - who was sitting before the gathering and had not seen the men obviously gesturing their endorsement - - took an alternate tack, Kommersant says the Russian president told them.

"No, the folks disagree with this choice," the Wagner chief expressed, as per Putin.

The paper doesn't say how the Kremlin meeting advanced quickly past that point, yet the revealing recommends a new endeavor by Putin to debilitate Prigozhin without sabotaging the accomplishments of the Wagner warriors completing Russia's "extraordinary military activity" in Ukraine.