They still have considerable value and power, especially with their mining operations in Africa. Do we know who was second-in-command, or is there going to be a power struggle?
Not that I liked him, or really thought he was too much safer in Belarus, but why did the guy think he’d just be able to chill in Russia after making his murder crazy boss look stupid?
That guy in his position could’ve faked his presence in this event. I’m not saying he has, but as it stands now - he looks like a moron for trusting putin after a coup. And I don’t think he was a moron. Selfish narcissistic cunt - yes. But not a moron.
I read the Wikipedia summary of the coup fallout. It seems Prigozhin was cooperative to turn all legit businesses and paramilitary equipment over to Putin. His former media outlets turned on him and painted him as a traitor, but he still cooperated. I feel it’s unlikely to be a mutual plot to fake his death, they’ve executed other people for far less than a public coup though. He may have thought he was getting some kind of lieniency, but I think they’re toast.
I really hope you’re right
Machine translation of an explainer
💰🇿🇦🪖Timchenko and Deripaska will take away Prigozhin’s main asset - Africa. PMC Redut, controlled by Putin’s friends, is recruiting thousands of mercenaries to send them to Africa and Syria
“The goal of everything that is happening is to replace Prigozhin with Deripaska,” a source close to Wagner PMC told the human rights project Gulagu.net.
🔺Several detachments (the 7th and 8th detachments of veterans of the 45th airborne brigade - they are the basis of the Redut) - were deployed from the Ukrainian direction and are redirected to Africa.
🖊“These two detachments were going to Ukraine, they were stopped and returned. New tasks. Now the set goes up to 40 thousand. All to Africa and Syria, to take the place of the “Wagnerites” and perhaps something new, Libya, Mali, Nigeria. We need to sign a contract with the 45th brigade. All this will be subordinated to the leadership of “Redoubt”. And it will be called Bars. Not to be confused with other Bars, there are already a lot of them, ”writes a source of human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin in one of these detachments.
🖊Redoubt will no longer be in Ukraine, says one of the mercenaries. According to him, recruitment to this organization is already open: “people and former Wagnerites are calling.” The most common response from Prigozhin’s mercenaries released on leave is “it doesn’t matter where you serve.” Another interlocutor of the “MO” noted, “now Redoubt is officially recruited under a contract from the army. There will be no problems with planes. Many are attracted, but many are afraid of the contract. It is still unknown - how much many are afraid - whether they will send instead of Africa to the “NOR”. They don’t want this. But they seem to promise that the leadership of “Reduta” will not deceive. And this group “Bars-Redut” will not go to the NWO."
🔺Prigozhin is trying to redirect his fighters to Africa. Those who are not involved in training Lukashenka’s military go either to Africa or on vacation. Most take vacations, “MO” noticed in Wagner’s chats. 11 buses have been sent home in the last week. “They say that in Belarus they are not doing well and it seems that their salaries have been reduced from 150 thousand rubles to 100. Everyone has dispersed and is looking for work. I think that most of them will join this new Bars-Redut, ”confirms the interlocutor of MO.
🔻PMC “Redut” is one of the most famous private military companies in Russia after PMC “Wagner”. As Meduza wrote, Reduta units were among the first to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
🔻Before the war, Redut was engaged in the protection and defense of the facilities of Stroytransgaz JSC located in Syria, controlled by a friend of the President Gennady Timchenko.
🔻Igor Strelkov said that “Redoubt” belongs to Gennady Timchenko. According to Gulagu.net and another MO source, Oleg Deripaska is also a generous sponsor of Redut. Managers “Rusal” Deripaska recruits in "Redoubt
Ah thanks for this info
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