The Wagner Group transfers its positions in Bakhmut to the Russian army
representatives of Wagner Group This Wednesday, the 30th, they advised their mercenary fighters to find another job after the death of the leader Yevgeny Prigozhinwho was buried this Tuesday the 29th in a cemetery in St. Petersburg. “Several tens of thousands of wellprepared fighters are ready to work and defend their homeland (in Ukraine), but due to known circumstances they are not leaving us for now,” said the Wagner Group representative in an audio recording reproduced by the news channel of the portal “Bashnie Istorii “. He adds that mercenaries are now forced to look for work Africa and in middle East, but that “the situation there is not easy either”. “We have strong competition from the Department of Defense and the National Guard, who are also planning and trying to gain access (to these areas) with activities similar to ours,” he said. The spokesman explained that Prigozhin raised this issue on his last trip to Africa, where several countries showed interest in his services, although future contracts are still pending. “We will try to find work for our members. We don’t know when and how much. So wait or look for another job. Stay up to date on the international situation. Should our team be allowed to enter the military special operations area (in Ukraine), then we will actively resume recruiting men. There will be work,” he emphasized. In May, the President of Russia, Wladimir Putin, called the members of the group heroes for the capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. However, the group fell from grace after a failed armed uprising against parts of the Kremlin in June, which ended with an agreement to relocate its base Belarus. Weeks before his death, Prigozhin admitted that the Wagner Group would no longer fight in Ukraine and announced the resumption of its activities on the African continent. After returning from Africa he traveled there Moscow, and the private plane he was on crashed 23,300 kilometers from the capital on the last day of the year. The cause of the fall is not yet known, although Prigozhin’s supporters, the opposition in exile and the Western press accuse Putin of giving the order to kill him, something the Kremlin categorically denies.
*With information from EFE.