After The Wagner Group’s insurrection last month, Russian mercenary chief and brief mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin is rumored to be either dead or in a Russian prison cell, according to a former senior US military officer.

General Robert Abrams, a retired general, has denied that Prigozhin and Putin were there at a rumored Kremlin meeting five days after the 24-hour mutiny by the Wagner forces.

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Abrams has said that the meeting was probably “staged” and that the CEO of Wagner has already been silenced in some way. He said: “My personal assessment is that I doubt we’ll see Prigozhin ever again publicly.

“I think he’ll either be put in hiding, or sent to prison, or dealt with some other way, but I doubt we’ll ever see him again.” On the supposed meeting at the Kremlin, the General argued: “I’d be surprised if we actually see proof of life that Putin met with Prigozhin, and I think it’s highly staged.”

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General Abrams answered the question on the possibility of Prigozhin’s staying alive by saying, “I personally don’t think he is, and if he is, he’s in a prison somewhere.”

According to The Mirror, Putin offered an “assessment” of Wagner’s conduct on the Ukrainian battlefield and “of the events of June 24” during the meeting.

Putin allegedly “listened to the commanders’ explanations and offered them options for further employment,” according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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Following an extended dispute with the senior brass of the Russian military, Prigozhin had marched his forces towards Moscow.

However, he put an end to the rebellion after an agreement was reached for the ex-prisoner to be exiled in Belarus while the Kremlin wrangled over Wagner’s future plans.

Putin attacked Prigozhin as a traitor after the failed uprising, but the Kremlin later declared that charges against him and his Wagner forces would be dropped by Russian authorities to prevent “bloodshed.”