“Wagner’s methods”
“This attack by Hamas is completely unprecedented and unpredictable. We have never seen such bestiality or such an important and incredibly well-organized combination of means,” says former French officer and military strategy expert Guillaume Ancel, referring to the development of the attack against Israel on October 7: small group attack operations, Sea raids, fighters in ultralight aircraft, combat in urban areas and the use of kamikaze drones and attack drones. “It takes more than a year to organize an attack of this kind using Wagner’s methods. We are sure that there are actors behind this, because it is not at the level of Hamas. »
“I am absolutely convinced that there is a Russian interest, a Russian hand, in the preparation of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel,” assures Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019 and now at the head of the Ukrainian party “European Solidarity “. “Euractiv”. “I am absolutely certain that Wagner’s Russian instructors in Syria were transferred to Hamas in Gaza and took part in training terrorists in preparation for the completely barbaric attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. »
“Only the Russians among Hamas’ allies have experience in using drones equipped with firing mechanisms against enemy equipment. Wagner told this to Hamas fighters during exercises in African countries,” said the National Center of Ukrainian Resistance, which praised some strategies used in Ukraine.
Long-term relationship
Russia has long had excellent relations with Iran and its satellite organizations such as Hamas and Hzebollah. Since 2020, delegations from the Palestinian group have been received in Moscow several times. Last March, after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, he declared that Hamas’s “patience” with Israel was “exhausted.” “A year ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came to Gaza to meet Hamas leaders. We wondered what he was doing back then…”
The settlement of the conflict “will undoubtedly be between the United States for Israel, Iran for Hamas and Russia,” said Guillaume Ancel, recalling that a year ago we asked ourselves what the head of Russian diplomacy was “busy of” and with whom “came to meet Hamas. pic.twitter.com/RLraRqF1lC
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Oleg Ignatov, senior analyst at Russia think tank Crisis Group, told Newsweek he had no evidence of Russian support or Wagner’s involvement, “but in this world you can’t rule anything out.”