Two weeks after the mutiny of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner paramilitary group ended, on the night of June 24, “most” of its fighters remain in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and do not “significantly” participate in the fighting, according to the Pentagon.
The Wagner group, which played a key role in the Moscow offensive in the year and a half of the war,tried to overthrow the Russian military leadership in a lightning uprising that was not aimed at overthrowing the government, according to Prigozhin.
An agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the wagnerity join the regular troops, go to Belarus or return to civilian life. Today it is known that they have handed over their weapons to the Russian regular troops (more than 2,000 pieces of military equipment, 2,500 tons of ammunition and 20,000 light weapons) and, within the opacity of Russian power, there seems to be reshaping within the military command.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has replaced the Major General Ivan Popovcommander of the 58th army of the Russian Armed Forces, to say truths about the situation at the front in Zaporizhia, where Moscow exhausts the reserves available to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“As many commanders of regiments of divisions have said, with our army the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not been able to, but from the rear our senior leader has struck us, who has decapitated the Army in a creeping and treasonous manner at the most difficult moment“Popov denounced while they were taking place”massive deaths of our brothers by enemy artillery”.