Sunday 25 June 2023

Wagner Leader Not Finished Yet

The Wagner business in Russia is a bit of a strange one but then i guess if you are using mercenaries to fight your war then you have to expect it to not go smoothly, after all the very definition of a mercenary is someone who only joins a military conflict for personal profit and what they can get out of it.
The details are sketchy but what we do know is that Yevgeny Prigozhin an his 50,000 Wagner troops have played a crucial role in the Ukraine war, capturing cities but Prigozhin has been criticising the Russian military top brass for a while over incompetence and lack of ammunition they are receiving and this
weekend overrun the Russian city's of Rostov and Voronezh and threatened to march into Moscow.
Russian troops attacked the Wagner group until an agreement was mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko between Moscow and Prigozhin that Prigozhin is stripped of control of the Wagner Group with some absorbed into the Russian military, and exiled to Belarus in return for mutiny charges being dropped but then it gets a bit hazy because despite exposed cracks in the Russian war as the attackers turn on each other, British top brass are warning that it has made the Ukraine war even more concerning.
Some are seeing this as a bit of theatre as Putin is unlikely to forgive treason quite so easily and Prigozhin is not the type to just disappear quietly into the night and nobody is saying how many loyal fighters are willing to follow Prigozhin to Belarus but it is noted that Belarus is the closest point to attack the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
I'm not sure this business has ended just yet.

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