16 minutes agoDid Prygozi feel his death? This is the will he had left.
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Yevgeny Pigozin was certain he would die early. He had long prepared an action plan to carry out at the moment of his disappearance. One kind of will: his business would leave it to his son Pavel, command of Wagner's mercenaries, Dmitry Utkin. He had even thought of a <x0 plan C” in [...]
Yevgeny Pigozin was certain he would die early. He had long prepared an action plan to carry out at the moment of his disappearance. One kind of will: his business would leave it to his son Pavel, command of Wagner's mercenaries, Dmitry Utkin. He had even thought of a C” <x0 plan in case, as happened later, Utkin, the man who had baptized the company by his battle name, died.
In this case, the command of the <x0mics” would pass the Council of Commanders under the direction of Anton Elizarov, codenamed “Lottos”, a former air force colonel who had led the invasion of Soledar. According to various sources, Lotos is currently located in Africa. From this, it seems, the Council's long silence, which should have issued a statement following the plane's crash that cut the heads of the Brigade directors. “A well-built system awaits its new leader. Or deregulation announcement”, Wagners now comment on a semi-official telegram channel.
The new leader or not, however, according to a Russian military intelligence source quoted by Al Monitor, few changes. Wagner's action plan in case of the leader's death was of a temporary nature. It in no way meant a fully autonomous functioning regime. Without Prigozhi, it is impossible to operate a business that is contrary to the very state structures that created this business”. Moreover, for two months Wagner has been a shadow of what he was. Yes, its legacy remains: a model of paramilitary society, indirectly linked to the Russian state, which is establishing standards, as well as contract recruiting and recruiting of prisoners. But, in fact, the “music company” died along with its leaders, whose bodies were found along with black boxes at the crash site of the plane, the Baltimore Committee confirmed yesterday. Among them, not only Prigozy and Utkin, but also the head of logistics Valery Chekalov.
Their now declared death leaves the open field for Vladimir Putin. If in Africa he entrusted Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence Gru Andrey Avereynow with the task of replacing Wagner with regular troops, he began to reconsider the structure of this parallel empire and also how to redefine the private military company sector. The first movement came yesterday: a presidential decree forcing thousands of mercenaries to swear as regular army soldiers do. They will have to swear by “sidnicity” against Russia, “to strictly observe the orders of their commanders and superiors” and “respect the Russian Constitution”.
A further presentation added to the defence submission contract that all military leaders had to sign by July 1st. But that's not enough. In pro-government newspapers, many have once again defended the legalisation of private military companies, Chastnje Voennie Company ( CHVK), or, as an alternative, their dissolution and final transfer under the control of the Ministry of Defence and Staff General. At the moment, in fact, the ChVK operate in a grey legal zone -- the penal code prohibits them in an experimental way, but allows state and private companies to employ armed security forces.
It is no coincidence yesterday that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled that Wagner “does not exist, legally”. Eager to save his face after negotiating the agreement that guaranteed Prigozhin and other rebel leaders immunity in exchange for exile in his country, Belarusian dictator Alexandr Lukashenko insisted that “Weagner lived, is alive and will live in Belarus” without specifying, however, what mission and how long. Somebody went on vacation, somebody decided to live on the sidelines, but within a few days everyone's gonna be here, up to 10 thousand people”.
Lukashenko also rushed to please Putin, claiming he “could not imagine him” as the driver of the Prigozhi death. Same line as the Kremlin. Speculations that Putin has issued orders to kill Wagner's leader, Peskov said, are “an absolute lie”.
