Spannung an der syrischen Front, die russischen Rackets stehen kurz davor, aufeinander loszugehen. Es geht darum, die pseudo-PMC „Wagner“ einzuhegen und unter das direkte Kommando des sog. Verteidigungsministerium zu überstellen.
On the night of September 12, a conflict between the Russian army and militants of the Wagner PMC broke out in Syria. The situation was on the verge of hostilities. Such information was shared by the Russian Z-blogger, who is in the Middle East, reports dialog.ua.
The process of liquidating „Wagner“, apparently, is difficult. The Russian Defence Ministry is trying to subdue the rebel group, to which the militants are apparently resisting. The situation is quite tense.
The Z-blogger assures that at night the redeployment of his group of fighters to Palmyra was disrupted because of an acute conflict between the PMC and the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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In Syria, there was a clash between the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC and the troops of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The conflict almost escalated into a full-scale war, according to reports. The clash was over the use of a helicopter to carry out airdrops on a cargo plane in Libya. The plane had to be turned around and flown back to the Russian Embassy in Tripoli. The incident was reported in the Russian news agency Tass, which published the report. The Russian government has not commented on the report, which was published in Tass.
The bottom line is this: Wagner, after bans on flying through the Khmeimim airbase and the revocation of permits from the Russian Foreign Ministry, agreed with the Syrian Ministry of Defense and issued flights for rotation to Africa, through the Syrian T4 air base. During the flight of the plane, Russian helicopters were lifted into the air, and fire engines were driven to the runway to prevent landing,“ the former deputy said in a statement.
The Syrians were told that if this plane landed, they would open fire on it. Moreover, the Syrian soldiers, who had their own order to accept the plane, for some time resisted the actions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the runway itself, but when they saw the hovering helicopters, they considered it good to retreat,“ Dimitriev writes.
As the circling plane (cargo from Libya) was running out of fuel, the question arose, since it might not have made it back to Libya. “ The Wagner mercenaries, who were preparing for the meeting, contacted Libya and, according to rumors, said that if this plane was shot down, the Wagnerites in Libya would retaliate by striking at the base of the Russian Ministry of Defense,“ the ex-deputy said in a statement.
But at the last moment, the leadership of the Syrian Wagner Group called Yevkurov and the order was canceled, the plane landed. The funny thing about it (if anything funny at all) was that there were 170 Syrians on board, Wagner contractors, who were flying home after the contract in Libya. The Syrians told me about it, choking, with wide eyes, waving their hands and asking, ‚What’s going on there?'“
Indes wurde GRU-General und Hobbymetzger Andrej Awerjanow in Mali gesichtet, der für viele Aktionen in Afrika, Asien und Europa verantwortlich ist, die schon so viele antiglobalistische bzw. antiimperialistische Herzen von der DKP bis zum Suworow Institut erfreut hatten. (Mit derselben Aufgabe in Algerien versucht wohl der nach dem „Wagnerschen Aufstand“ diesen Sommer in Ungnade gefallene „General Armageddon“ Surowikin seine Haut zu retten).
Why it matters: Putin will use the Wagner Group to further widen the cracks between Africa and Western nations over political differences and colonial legacies.
-In the short term Averyanov will be ensuring the continued flow of money from Wagner mining concessions to fund the Ukraine War and survive sanctions.
-He will look to replace Wagner mercenaries working with the regimes with 20,000 highly trained Russian troops.
Nun, mit diesen „20000 bestens ausgebildeten“ weiß ich nicht. Die fehlen bekanntlich momentan ganz arg woanders, wo es akut brennt. Und zwar dermaßen, dass Russland seine Truppen an der ukrainischen Front nicht rotieren kann. Die Lage ist inzwischen laut diversen Z-Bloggern, die manchmal im Gegensatz zur offiziellen Propaganda die Sachen beim richtigen Namen nennen, katastrophal.
Pt. IV der News hier. Stay tuned.
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