Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man, the infamous Dmitry Utkin, met in Belarus With the mercenaries of his Wagner group. A former ally of Vladimir Putin, who tried to usurp him and lost favor in the Kremlin, appointed his soldiers as a new commander in charge of the division stationed in Osipovichi.
Most unexpectedly, neither Prigogine nor Utkin will be with the players. Commander Sergey Shubko, B.S. “pioneer”. One of the leading officials of the Wagner Group, he is a senior official in Syria, Libya and Mali. For war crimes in Africa. Most recently, he commanded troops in the Central African Republic.
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Nothing is known about the mercenary commander in Belarus. But independent investigative journalists from the “All Eyes on Wagner” group Discovering the truth, he describes Sergei Chubkov, who long ago commanded troops in Africa. It was there that he would issue the orders that killed 700 civilians. Journalists have documented more than a hundred war crimes committed by the Russians.
“Pioneer” was described as participating in BMC Wagner combat operations in Syria, Central Africa, Sudan, Mali. and other countries in the region. He has been a Wagnerian since 2017 and is one of the survivors of the Qusham massacre in Syria. It was there that US forces intercepted the convoys of the Wagner group and completely destroyed its convoy on the night of February 7/8, 2018.
Now, Sergey Chubko will oversee the hiring of the Wagner group Activities of the mercenaries in the camp at Osipowicze and in Belarus. We don’t know much about it yet.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that the Belarusian military is continuing its training. As indicated by the agency, this phase of training is to take place near Brest, on the border between Belarus and Poland. The training lasts for one week. They are joined by representatives of the Wagner Group by units of the Belarusian Special Operations Forces.
Meanwhile, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin are absent May not be accidental. “The Pentagon believes that the mercenaries of the Wagner group coming to Belarus will be reintegrated into the Russian army,” analyzes the Ukrainian Pravda portal based on the Pentagon’s opinion.
Perhaps they are both doing everything to save PMC Wagner and avoid the Kremlin’s revenge after the failed coup. Vladimir Putin recently said that he does not know of any Wagner Group and that such an organization does not exist. It was like a sentence. Yevgeny Prigozhin promised the fighters that they would return to fight in Ukraine or camps in Africa.