Yevgeny Prigozhin is preparing to withdraw his Wagner group from Ukraine after several failures and a conflict with the Russian Defense Ministry, media reports.
Head of a private Russian military company Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin is preparing to wind down his mercenary operations in Ukraine and turn his attention to Africa. Bloomberg reported this, citing people familiar with the situation. The reasons for this decision were the failures of the “Wagnerites” near Bakhmut and the serious conflict between Prigozhin and the Russian Ministry of Defense.
What the former chef of the president of Russia thought and what they say about it in the Armed Forces of Ukraine read in the story Correspondent.net.
Plan B – Africa
The Russian political establishment sees Prigozhin as a growing threat. So now he is struggling with a shortage of men and ammunition after he was banned from recruiting from prisons, his main source of recruits. Under such conditions, Prigozhin decided to reduce operations in Ukraine.
“Troops Wagner have so far failed to reach their main target – the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut – despite months of attempts and staggering losses. According to people, now Prigozhin plans to focus again on Africa,” sources told reporters.
As the agency said, this change was a sudden turn of fortune for Prigozhin, a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin, who quickly gained notoriety as a “tough guy” alternative to the ambiguous Russian army. .
The high command managed to sow doubts in the President of Russia about the vaunted military strength Wagner, which claims its results were achieved by using waves of “prison troops” sent to their deaths, said people close to the Kremlin and special services. After that, Putin intervened to transfer the recruitment of prisoners to the Russian Ministry of Defense, cutting off the flow of recruits. Wagner. The delivery of ammunition to the mercenaries has also slowed down.
Also, as the agency notes, the Kremlin did not like Prigozhin’s independence.
At the same time, journalists report that there are no signs at the moment that Prigozhin is re-implementing the Wagnerites in Africa, but people familiar with the situation say that the operations there are likely to attract more in his attention to the future, as the situation in Ukraine has become more complicated for his forces.
Bloomberg also drew attention to the announcement published on Monday about the recruitment of mercenaries for six months in Ukraine and for 9-14 months in Africa, clarifying that those who want to serve in African countries will be enrolled in the reserve.
US offer
Prigozhin himself criticized the Bloomberg article.
“I don’t know what Bloomberg reported, but it seems they know better than I do what we will do next. As long as our country needs us, we are fighting on the territory of Ukraine,” reported the press service of Prigozhin.
At the same time, the previous day, Russian media reported that Prigozhin allegedly wrote a letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in which he offered to finance his organization’s activities in Africa, saying that his PMC “succeeded in achieving significant results. in the field of security in all the countries it visited” .
Prigozhin reportedly invited the United States to support the efforts PMC Wagner for Security in Africa and fund the new Wagner Safe Africa project.
Prigozhin’s press office
“You will be able to become one of the investors of the project and thus save the resources of US taxpayers,” the PMC founder wrote to Blinken.
Revenge from APU
At the same time, the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Alexander Syrsky, said that the Russian forces, especially the militants. PMC Wagnerwas running out of steam near Bakhmut, and indicated that Ukrainian forces would use this opportunity for an offensive.
“The main Russian forces in this direction are representatives of the Wagner PMC. Without caution, they lost significant strength and ran out of steam,” Syrsky wrote in Telegram.
According to the general, the Ukrainian forces “will soon use this opportunity, as they have done before near Kiev, Kharkov, Balakleya and Kupyansk.”
Syrsky emphasized that the Ukrainian military maintained the defense of the city under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, showing superhuman endurance, courage and bravery.
“In particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th brigades, which are now defending our Motherland in the east of the country,” the general summarized.
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Source: korrespondent
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