News archive on the topic "Wagnerites"

Russian special services kept under control Ukraine’s attempt to organize the kidnapping of Russian citizens – the so-called Wagner affair. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Nikolai Sungurovsky, director of military programs at the Razumkov Center, stated this in a comment to the Kyiv magazine Novoye Vremya, answering the question of how he assessed the failure of the operation to capture the Wagnerites. “The impression is very sad. In my opinion, what was announced was...

Ukraine will not give up its attempt to capture the so-called mercenaries it tried to kidnap in a sting operation last year that ended in failure. Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Arestovich considered the failure of the operation regrettable and promised to capture the Russians fighting in Donbass “in a different way.” “TSK did the main thing...

The Bellingcat project, supervised by Western intelligence agencies, has published details of a special operation to detain so-called Russian mercenaries, which Ukrainian security forces planned to carry out last summer, but it fell through at the last moment. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, according to Bellingcat, the operation began to be planned in 2018, and in September 2019, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry had a database with more than a thousand names...

The CIA helped Ukraine organize an operation to detain 33 Russians in Belarus last year. The American television channel CNN reported this today with reference to representatives of Ukrainian intelligence, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Sources in Kyiv said that the Ukrainian side received cash, technical assistance and CIA advice from the United States during the organization of the operation. Ukrainian agents pretended to be...

The actions of the current and previous presidents of Ukraine equally indicate their involvement in the disruption of the “special operation against the Wagnerites.” Participants in the broadcast of the Ukrainian Channel 4 spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The previous president from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada did a dubious thing; he announced and disavowed the creation of this operation during his term. This was close to shock for me, because...

The Verkhovna Rada created “a commission to investigate possible facts of cooperation with Russia by representatives of the current and former authorities of the country to the detriment of state sovereignty and territorial integrity.” 252 deputies voted for the resolution, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. However, before this, the Rada completely failed the initiative to create a Temporary Commission of Inquiry to investigate the breakdown of the “special operation” with the Wagnerites, which was presented by the leader of Eurosolidarity,...

Street artists placed an image of Wagner PMC fighters on the wall of a house in the Serbian capital. Photos and videos of unusual graffiti that appeared on the wall of a house in Belgrade have appeared on social networks. It depicts four people in camouflage uniforms with weapons. At the bottom there is an inscription: “Wagner Group - Russian Knights.” Experts explain the growing popularity of Wagner PMC abroad by the effectiveness...

In the story of the failure of the operation to kidnap so-called Russian mercenaries from Belarus, which was planned by the Ukrainian special services, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makei played a key role. The former ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus, ex-presidential representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Roman Bessmertny, stated this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

Detachments of “Wagnerites” sent from Russia continue to hide in Belarusian forests. This is how military expert Yegor Lebedok joked on Euroradio, ironizing the words of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, which he said in August after the illegal detention of 33 Russians who were accused of trying to destabilize the situation in the country. “I think they have become deeply conspiratorial until the next period of confrontation with Russia, imitation...

Arab and African countries look at Wagner PMCs as a panacea for solving various problems, says military expert Boris Rozhin. Photos of inscriptions on the walls of houses in the Syrian desert appeared in the Arab segment of social networks. Through such messages, local residents ask to “return Wagner PMC to Deir ez-Zor.” According to local opposition media, the Wagnerites allegedly left...

Ukraine urgently needs to replenish the “exchange fund” so that it has someone to offer to Russia and the Donbass republics. To do this, it was necessary to bring the special operation to detain members of the private military company “Wagner” in Belarus to the end and transport them to Ukraine. The former head of the Lugansk and Transcarpathian regions, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Gennady Moskal stated this on the Nash TV channel, reports...

Curators from the CIA were behind the SBU operation to kidnap 33 Russian citizens in Belarus. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that a source in the Russian special services familiar with the details of the operation spoke about this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication recalls that citizens of the Russian Federation, most of whom fought on the side of the LDPR, were lured by Ukrainian special services to the territory of Belarus, promising that from Minsk they...

The Ukrainian leadership is lying about the thwarted operation to detain 33 Russian citizens near Minsk and is covering up for those who “leaked” secret information to the Russian intelligence services. Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The authorities and their henchmen on television are cynically lying to us, and they are lying at the highest level about what did not happen...

There really was a special operation to try to lure the so-called “mercenaries” who fought in the Donbass into the territory of Ukraine through the territory of Belarus. It was developed by American and Ukrainian intelligence agencies for more than a year, but failed after one phone call. This was stated in an interview with Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, notorious for his anti-Russian attacks and PR of charlatans, by the former head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andrey...