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September 4, 2:37 PM
Let us remind you that the Belarusian security forces later detained 33 Russian mercenaries, accusing them of trying to destabilize the situation in the country on the eve of the presidential elections.
It later turned out that the Russians were heading to Venezuela and Syria, and were recruited, according to journalist Yuriy Butusov of the Ukrainian Security Service.
According to him, the intelligence officers tried to attract the Wagnerites, as they had previously participated in hostilities in the Donbas and were involved, in particular, in the destruction of the IL-76 aircraft in June 2014, as a result of the accident of which 49 Ukrainian military were killed.
In addition, the journalist Yanina Sokolova released an audio recording, which captured the mercenaries’ negotiations with the SBU operative that recruited them.
In turn, in Bankova, such an operation was denied, claiming that all this was only «rumors. “
«Delirium. I have read it. Sad that some media outlets reprinted Komsomolskaya Pravda (looks Russian), caused a sensation in Ukraine. I don’t know of any kind of “leak” from some kind of operation, “then-President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, commenting on allegations that the Ukrainian special services operation brought down his office.
In turn, Aryev said that he had documents at his disposal confirming an attempt by the SBU to lure the Russian mercenaries to justice.
«There is a letter from the head of the fifth department of the SBU, department of counterintelligence, dated July 13, 2020, “he said.
In the document released, the head of the main investigation department is informed that in the framework of the criminal case, which has been investigated since May 2014 in relation to the Russian aggression, in 2019-2020, a Ukrainian operative «Serhiy Petrovich “established the personal data and interviewed 40 people ready to be sent to Venezuela and Syria, and documented their evidence of crimes on the territory of Ukraine.
Ariev also notes that the specified name appears only on documents with a stamp «secret “.
In addition, there is a protocol for the inspection of information media dated July 25, 2020 in the framework of the same criminal case, which was signed by an investigator from the SBU and contains the names of the militants that appear in the records.
«In addition, the signature of the SBU investigator is on the protocols with the transcripts of the conversations between the Wagnerists and the recruiter. That is, under the protocol with the transcripts of the conversation with the militant Kharitonov, previously made public by Yanina Sokolova, ”said the people’s deputy.
He insists that the flight to Istanbul, which the Russian mercenaries were supposed to board on July 25 as part of the SBU’s special operation to arrest them, was canceled by order of the President’s Office.
«The militants remained in Belarus and on July 29 they were arrested by the local KGB. The reason for the cancellation is a key point, and here the role of the Zelensky Office is key, because the team to postpone the departure was from there. In the next 4 days, the operation merged, ”said Aryev.
In this regard, he insists on the creation of a temporary inquiry commission in the Verkhovna Rada, which should establish the reason for the failure of such a carefully prepared special operation of the SBU.
«I have a complete package of documents for all Wagnerians, documented by the special services of Ukraine. Transcript protocols of the recruiter’s conversations with the Wagnerites, signed by the chief investigator of the SBU, suspicions that were sent to the court and signed by the head of the General Prosecutor’s Office, in particular, on the aforementioned Kharitonov. Everything proves the cynical lie of the authorities, who tried to hide the fact of this operation, which in fact is unique … The militants that could have ended up in the hands of the Ukrainian law enforcement officers were finally released by the Belarusian special services in the Russian Federation and escaped punishment ”, concluded the parliamentarian.
Let us remind you that on July 29, the Belarusian security forces announced the arrest of 33 militants from the Kremlin-controlled unofficial private military company Wagner. On August 2, the prosecution chose a preventive measure in the form of arrest. The Belarusian Security Council reported that they were supposedly looking for another 200 militants in the country.
The Belarusian authorities stated that the objective of the PMC fighters was to destabilize the situation in the country before the presidential elections. Some of the detainees fought in the Donbas on the side «DNR “and” LPR. “Contrary to Ukraine’s extradition request, Minsk handed over the mercenaries to Moscow.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Belarus’ decision to transfer members of Wagner’s PMCs to Russia as unfair and inconsistent with friendly relations between states.