Proved its importance: in ISW told why Prigogine appeared at the Putin Summit
Analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW). According to analysts' reports, the leader of Wagner PEC Yevhen Prigogin held a number of meetings at a hotel located near the place of the Russian-African Forum. It is interesting to note that he did not participate in the event, but actively met with representatives of African countries. "Prigogine . . .
took advantage of unofficial to meet with an unknown number of African leaders to testify that Wagner PVC intends to remain a significant player in Africa. . . . Russian insider source claimed that Prigogine had private informal meetings with representatives of the unknown number of African Governments. The constant efforts of Prigogine to meet African leaders and send them a message are probably part of the efforts of the Wagner PEC to preserve their favorable military and mining contracts in Africa.
The unnamed Wagner commander, who recently returned from the king, July 26 that Wagner PEC is working on increasing its operations in Africa to finance its presence in Belarus, "the ISW report reads. Yevgeny Prigogin actively used the Russian-African summit to position the Wagner PEC as a viable anti-Western partner for Niger. This happened after the coup that happened in this country on the eve of the event.
"Telegram channels, affiliated with Wagner, began to spread the audio recording of Prigogine on July 27, in which he praised the elimination of Nigerian military presidential Mohammed Basum and praised it as an act of" Independence ". It will require "Wagner PVC", just as it happened in Mali after a coup in May 2021, " - said ISW. It should be reminded that the founder of the private military company "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigogine was noticed in St.