It flickers in the chambers of Russian power. According to Moscow’s military elite, there is one man who risks gaining unfettered power in the war in Ukraine and eclipsing President Vladimir Putin. He is the so-called “Chef of the Tsar” Evgeny Prigozhin, billionaire restaurateur and owner of the terrible private army called Wagner Group, responsible for numerous wartime operations in Ukraine.
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According to Telegram General Svr’s report, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev allegedly warned Putin at a meeting in recent days about Prigozhin’s activism, which is now being projected “on Russia’s political Olympus”. The oligarch lays the foundation for a political career through interviews, contacts and meetings and provides a kind of press man and the head of the Kremlin with its 37,000 soldiers and a budget “of 15 billion” entrusted to him by Putin himself. Dollars, while the Russian special services neither have nor the right to control its spending,” the self-proclaimed former Russian intelligence general wrote in the post.
According to the Moscow military, within a year Prigozhin will “almost become the main destabilizing factor in the situation in Russia,” and Patrushev suggested that Putin “neutralize” the head of the Wagner group. On the other hand, Putin allegedly claimed to be “studying the proposals” but stressed the importance of the private army in the war.
In summary, there is “a serious conflict” in Putin’s magic circle, in part because Prigozhin would operate with complete autonomy in Ukraine, going so far as to have Russian soldiers and officers killed who do not join. At the moment, General Svr stresses, Putin is defending his confidante, but soon “he will have to decide who he wants to stay with, Prigozhin or the security forces. Both options come with negative consequences,” the post reads.