The leader of the Wagner Group was shown alive in Saint Petersburg after many rumors about his fate

2023-07-28 00:55:00

After much uncertainty about his whereabouts, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, would have reappeared surprisingly in Saint Petersburgwhere the second Russia-Africa summit is held, together with a member of the Central African Republic delegation.

In the image, Prigozhin can be seen dressed in jeans and a short-sleeved white shirt shaking hands with the alleged Central African diplomat, who is wearing a accreditation ribbon which coincides with the one carried by African leaders at the summit.

American news network CNN achievement geolocate photography and placed Prigozhin next to the Central African official in the Trezzini Palace Hotel from Saint Petersburg, where Prigozhin has an office, according to Russian media. This hotel was one of those registered by the Russian authorities after the attempted rebellion by the mercenaries.

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She is serious the first image of Prigozhin inside Russian territory since at the end of June he led an attempted rebellion against the Russian authorities. The head of the mercenaries, critical of the Russian military leadership, even led a march from Rostov to the country’s capital, Moscow.

As early as mid-July, these social media channels affiliated with the Wagner Group published a video in which Prigozhin was allegedly observed in a military training camp in Belarus encouraging the mercenaries present there by virtue of the agreement reached with the president of the country, Alexander Lukashenko.

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Although there has been no official confirmation from anywhere, CIA director Bill Burns did later acknowledge that the leader of the Wagner Group was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. “She’s moved around a little bit,” Burns stated.

The Wagner Group had confirmed weeks ago that its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was in Belarus. However, suspicions remained, as the information could not be independently confirmed.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s last appearance

This month, it had emerged that the head of the paramilitary group that took part in the war with Ukraine I was in Moscow fighting stomach cancer. There was also a rumor that she was in a “windowless” hotel in Minsk, and even the intelligence services of The United States had already given him up for dead..

On Friday, July 14, the Wagner group posted on its Telegram channel a photo showing its founder sitting in a tent on a metal bed. in shirt and underpants, waving to the camera. The strange image of the billionaire mercenary was reminiscent of the words of Ian Bremmer, president of the geopolitical risk company Eurasia Group, who said that he currently “looks like the walking dead.”

The image that the Wagner Group shared weeks ago, where their leader is seen in underpants

Bremmer maintains that the leader of the mercenary group will be executed for his attempted coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite public guarantees issued by the Kremlin. Despite this, just five days after the attempted mutiny, the Russian president held secret talks with Prigozhin and his commanders, a meeting that lasted almost three hours.

The Wagner Group in Belarus

Soldiers of the Wagner militia provide military instruction in Belarus, as reported by the government of this country, which supports Moscow’s military offensive against Ukraine. The country governed by Volodimir Zelensky, for its part, admitted that his counteroffensive to recover territories conquered by the Russians in the south and east progress slowlyin the midst of hard battles.

“The fighters of the private military company Wagner act as instructors in various military areas” and train “units of territorial defense troops” of Belarus, said the Ministry of Defense in Minsk. Among other techniques, recruits learn “battlefield movement and tactical shooting“, he added.

The Wagner group, which played a key role in the Russian offensive in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, rebelled on June 24 against the General Staff of the Russian army. The uprising ended a few hours later, with an agreement providing for Prigozhin’s departure to Belarus.

President Vladimir Putin has vowed to punish the “betrayal of the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, whose rebellion against the Russian military command means a “deadly threat” and the risk of “civil war” for the country in full conflict with Ukraine.

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