Former US President Bush also claims to have seen Putin’s “soul” – but the Kremlin boss has moved on in his long tenure.
Kiev – George W. Bush has now spoken about the meeting with Yevgeny Prigogine. The head of the Wagner group came to international attention only as a result of the war in Ukraine. Previously, the media did not talk much about Prigozhin’s nickname – “Putin’s chef”, because the Kremlin boss preferred to use the services of his catering company even at state banquets.
Prigozhin served Bush food at Putin meeting: “I survived”
Former US President Bush attended the “Yalta European Strategy Conference” in Kiev via video link on Saturday (September 9) and was asked about Prigozhin’s death – weeks after he organized a mercenary uprising in Russia. When asked this question, Bush first recalled that he had not noticed Prigogine in their first meeting. That’s what she says Kyiv Post.
“What shocked me was that I recently saw a picture from the G8 summit in St. Petersburg where Prigozhin served me a meal,” Bush said. Kyiv Post. “He’s the cook. All I know is that I survived.” Bush was referring to pictures of several meetings in 2006 in which Prigozh can be seen in the background, which have been circulating online for some time:
Former President Bush on first meeting with Putin: “I saw his soul”
But why shouldn’t Bush have survived serving food to Prigogine? In 2006, relations between the United States and Russia were still different. Prigozhin’s significant role in the war in Ukraine was far from over. The former US president did not explain this, but he also described the impressions of his first meeting with Vladimir Putin.
That was in Slovenia in early 2001, Bush said Kyiv Post. Putin wanted to talk to him about Soviet-era debts. At that time he asked the Russian president: “Is it true that your mother gave you the cross and you were blessed in Jerusalem?” He got information from the CIA – Putin’s face changed when asked the question. “He calmed down from his nervousness and began to talk about his mother and the cross, and what it meant for him to be saved.”
According to the report, Bush further assessed Putin’s character and development. Putin has changed significantly since then and is now “infected” with power and money. “I think he is more powerful today than when I was president. And he is a smart politician,” he said at the same time.
Bush said of the meeting in Slovenia: “I asked him about his daughters. He let me know that he had two daughters and he talked about their interests and I talked about my daughters. We started a working relationship. I looked into his eyes, I saw his soul. (frs)
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