Russia has reportedly placed a $15 million bounty on Defense Secretary Guido Crosetto. This is the report that has reached the top levels of government from Italian intelligence and was reported by the Foglio this morning. «The alarm – writes the newspaper – came last week, before the dispute over migrants prompted Prigozhin to insult Crosetto on his Telegram channel. The origin of the concern of the Italian services seems to be the outbursts of anger against the Italians by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has been at the forefront of Russian ultra-nationalist and militarist propaganda for months ».
According to Italian intelligence, Il Foglio writes again: “There would be a clearly defined supply chain in the order transmission chain that could go from Moscow to Rome. Wagner has at least two cells in Europe: one in the Balkans, moving between Serbia and Albania; the other in the Baltics based in Estonia. Two handpieces from a few dozen soldiers, a patrol of which could be dispatched to conduct targeted actions in Italy. On the other hand, the services of other countries such as Poland or France have signaled similar fears. But including a member of the government of the G7 country in the stated goal of a Kremlin-paid brigade is obviously something that means an increase in the level of risk.”