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Ukrainian intelligence services suggest that Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner Private Military Company, might have been promised the dismissal of Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and several other military officials, sources told Ukrainska Pravda.
Source: Sources of Ukrainska Pravda in the Ukrainian special services
Details: Sources note that in exchange for turning the convoys of Wagner Group’s forces away from Moscow, Prigozhin could have been promised the dismissal of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and other minor Russian officials with whom the owner of the Wagner PMC is in conflict.
The sources also cast doubt on whether the Wagnerites will actually move to Belarus.
In an emergency speech to the nation, Putin had described the situation as "Russia fighting to survive" before he fled Moscow so maybe those changes at MoD were really all he had wanted and maybe Putin was frightened enough to agree.
Source: Sources of Ukrainska Pravda in the Ukrainian special services
Details: Sources note that in exchange for turning the convoys of Wagner Group’s forces away from Moscow, Prigozhin could have been promised the dismissal of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and other minor Russian officials with whom the owner of the Wagner PMC is in conflict.
The sources also cast doubt on whether the Wagnerites will actually move to Belarus.
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In an emergency speech to the nation, Putin had described the situation as "Russia fighting to survive" before he fled Moscow so maybe those changes at MoD were really all he had wanted and maybe Putin was frightened enough to agree.
