After the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, all activities of the Wagner Group in Africa and the Middle East will come under the control of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
This is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources at the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Kremlin and the Wagner Group itself.
The authorities of the Central African Republic confirmed that they would cooperate with individuals designated by Moscow, noting that they had an agreement with Russia and not with Wagner. Advisor to Africa’s head of state Fidel Guandjika called the leadership change “Putin’s message”.
Currently there are about 2,000 in the Central African Republic. Wagnerians who support the government of President Faustin-Archange Touader and control a large gold mine. “During five years of working in Africa, Prigozhin built an empire there stretching from the Central African Republic to Sudan and Mali, which should have been turned over entirely to the Russian military command,” sources told Bloomberg.
The agency notes that the redistribution of influence at the end of June will “end the system that allowed Prigozhin to gain enough independence to lead an armed insurrection.” At the same time, Putin will no longer be able to abdicate responsibility for the actions of Russian forces in these regions.
Prigozhin died in a plane crash
On August 23, an Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company crashed in the Tver region, flying from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. On board the machine were the founder of the Wagner Group, his deputy and head of security Valery Chekalov, as well as the formation commander Dmitry Utkin and several mercenaries. All passengers and three crew members (a total of 10 people) were killed.
On August 27, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation completed DNA testing of the victims of the crash. A spokesman for the commission said all bodies, including Prigozhin, had been identified.
The causes of the catastrophe are still being explained by Russian prosecutors, but there are mainly two hypotheses: the plane was shot down by the S-300 anti-aircraft system, and the bomb exploded on board.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his first public comment on the disaster, expressed his condolences to all the families of the victims. He called Prigozhin “a man with a difficult fate” who made serious mistakes in life, but was “a talented businessman.”
Prigozhin was quietly buried on August 29 in the cemetery of St. Petersburg.
Source: Do Rzeczy

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