Russian mercenary chief and short-lived mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin is tipped to be both useless or in a Russian jail cell following The Wagner Group's insurrection final month, based on a former prime US navy official.

Retired General Robert Abrams has dismissed a reported Kremlin assembly held 5 days after the 24-hour mutiny by Wagner forces attended by Prigozhin and Putin.

Mr Abrams believes the face-to-face was doubtless "staged" and the Wagner CEO has already been silenced in some kind or one other.

He mentioned: "My personal assessment is that I doubt we’ll see Prigozhin ever again publicly.

"I feel he’ll both be put in hiding, or despatched to jail, or handled another method, however I doubt we’ll ever see him once more."

On the supposed meeting at the Kremlin, the General argued: "I’d be stunned if we truly see proof of life that Putin met with Prigozhin, and I feel it’s extremely staged.”

When requested whether or not Prigozhin may nonetheless be alive, General Abrams replied: "I personally don’t think he is, and if he is, he’s in a prison somewhere."

The Mirror reported that throughout the assembly Putin supplied an "assessment" of Wagner’s actions on the battlefield in Ukraine and "of the events of June 24".

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed Putin additionally "listened to the explanations of the commanders and offered them options for further employment".

Prigozhin had marched his males in the direction of Moscow following long-simmering battle with the Russian navy’s prime brass.

But he ended the rebellion after a deal was brokered for the ex-jailbird to be exiled in Belarus because the Kremlin thrashed out plans for Wagner’s future.

Following the botched insurrection, Putin slammed Prigozhin as a traitor however the Kremlin later introduced costs towards him and his Wagner forces will likely be dropped by Russian authorities to keep away from "bloodshed".

Russia’s defence ministry revealed a video that includes navy chief General Valery Gerasimov – the primary time he has been proven because the insurrection aimed to oust him.

Dmitry Peskov, President Putin's press secretary, mentioned Wagner mercenaries who want to signal a Ministry of Defence contract can accomplish that.

"We left on June 23 for the march of justice," Prigozhin mentioned in an audio message following the coup.

"In a day we travelled, not reaching 200 km, to Moscow.

"During this time, we've got not shed a single drop of the blood of our fighters.

"Now the moment has come when blood could be shed, therefore, realising all the responsibility for the fact that Russian blood will be shed on one of the sides, we turn our columns around and return in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan."