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Not 25,000, but only 8,000 fighters of the “Wagner” PMK took part in the failed campaign on Moscow. 25,000 is the number of the PMC together with the African contingent. Oleksandr Kovalenko, military and political commentator of the “Information Resistance” group, reported this today, June 27, on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel.
“Their further future, I do not think that in any case they will not be allowed into the combat zone in any way. How can they not be allowed, if they are even there, as before. In Donetsk region and part of Zaporizhzhia. Will there be withdrawal to the territory of Belarus – perhaps, in some part yes. But Belarus is too tight for Prigozhin, it is absolutely not his level. He may even move from Belarus to Africa at some point, but again, only situationally. Prigozhin will return to Russia and this is his only way, it will not pass without a trace,” he said.
The observer believes that Prigozhin’s stay in Belarus or conditionally in Africa will not be long-term.
In addition, as Kovalenko noted, Prigozhin is not the sole head of the PMC as such, he is the face of “Wagner”.
“He is a media person, he is a media personality. There are their commanders, their leaders, their curators regarding the organization that patronizes the Wagners. And the Wagners were protected from the very beginning by the FSB, which created this structure to compete with the Ministry of Defense in order to seize their monopoly on hybrid operations outside of Russia,” he says.
According to the observer, among the managers of “Wagner” there is a non-media personality Dmytro Utkin, who has also been close to the leadership of this PMC from the beginning.
“If you compare Utkin with Prigozhin, then Prigozhin is more of a PR guy, and secondly a leader, while Utkin is first of all a leader, and secondly, not even a media person at all, rather a gray cardinal. There, everything came together with a wedge not only on Prigozhina, there is a serious hierarchical ladder,” Oleksandr Kovalenko summarized.
We will remind, as the journalist, ex-deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Ihor Yakovenko stated, at the most critical moments for the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin engages in self-removal, and for good reason. He has nothing to say to the Russians, so he pretends that it doesn’t concern him. The day before, the head of the Kremlin made a speech, which, according to his press service, was supposed to become historic. In fact, Putin thanked the killed pilots and “Wagnerian” rebels. It was reminiscent of bowing down after the end of the rebellion in the Russian Federation.
