The elimination of Prigogine was more profitable by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation than Putin - isw

Thus, the Ministry of Defense may want to be the first organization to take control of the residues of Wagner. This opinion was expressed by analysts of the Institute of War Study in the summary of August 27.

ISW notes that former Russian BBC investigative journalist Andriy Zakharov, with reference to unnamed sources, reported that Putin allowed Prigogine to continue Wagner's operations in the Middle East and Africa, but gave him an instruction not to interfere with the affairs of Ukraine Whether Russia during one of their two meetings that took place after Prigogine's armed rebellion on June 24.

At the same time, the journalist claims that the Russian Defense Ministry, on the contrary, intensified efforts to "suppress" Wagner group in Syria and Africa, and Prigogine, along with the group's leadership, flew to Moscow before his death to try to solve this issue. Zakharov emphasized that now the fate of the "Prigogine Empire", which covers military contracts and contracts for oil, gas and gold, in the Middle East and Africa is unclear.

According to the Kremlin's military blogger to avoid the tension and loss of foreign assets "Wagner", they should be taken by the third party, perhaps another Russian power structure, not MO RF. "The Russian source also states that the Russian Federation may have hurried to disband the Wagner, since the Kremlin has not yet decided on his fate, and MO wanted to be the first organization that will take control of the residues of the Wagner PEC," In the ISW report.

The analysts of the institute stated that they could not independently confirm the accuracy of these messages, but if they are true, it may indicate that Putin did not manage the process of disbanding the Wagner PEC, but transferred this responsibility to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

At the same time ISW believes that the emergence of these reports in Russian blogger and opposition communities may also indicate an attempt to separate the President of the Russian Federation from the murder Before that, the owner of the Wagner PEC Yevgeny Prigogin, was crashed in the Tver region. According to Rosaviation, there were 10 people on board, including "Chef Putin" and Dmitry Utkin.