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Yevgeny Shevchenko, known as an independent agent of the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine, spoke in an interview with Bulgarian journalist and Bellingcat chief investigator Hristo Grozev about circumstances of the interruption of the special operation to arrest mercenaries of the private military company PMC “Wagner”… He announced it on Facebook on March 11.
“Yesterday, my Mi-6 curator Hristo Grozev came to Kiev. I was very happy to receive new instructions on the development and destruction of Russian agents. But seriously, I gave an interview for a film about the circumstances of the interruption of Operation Wagner PMC, which Bellingcat is filming for Netflix. Therefore, if now only a fairly limited circle of people among the special services knows about the betrayal in the top management of our country, the whole world will soon know. And this is very , very insulting, “Shevchenko wrote.
Shevchenko noted that he was surprised by the behavior of the Ukrainian president’s subordinates. Vladimir Zelensky
“The head of the President’s Office himself, Yermak, invited a film crew to Ukraine, provided transportation and security, but at the specified time the meeting did not take place, because whoever felt that he smelled fried and simply stopped take the phone. own conclusions, “he added.
Grozev said in an interview with GORDON editor-in-chief Ales Batsman in December 2020 that Bellingcat will publish an investigation into the disruption of the special operation to seize mercenaries from the Russian PMC Wagner, which was being prepared by Ukrainian military intelligence and the SBU, and by the end of the year it will release a documentary about it.
The founder of the publication “GORDON”, the Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon said on the air of the television channel “Ukraine 24” that next Monday, March 15, will be a difficult day for the country, very important information will be made public, which will make this day a milestone for society. March 10 on the air of “Echo of Moscow” heexplained that Bellingcat’s investigative film on the Wagnerians is scheduled to open that day.
July 29, 2020 authorities Belarus denounced the arrest of 33 foreigners, members of a private military company. The Belarusian Security Council declared that a criminal case was opened against those detained under the article on the preparation of terrorist acts, later it was reported that they were suspected of preparing mass riots.
In an interview with Gordon, which aired on August 6, Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, said he would extradite the detained militants to Ukraine if Kiev proves their involvement in the Donbas crimes. Lukashenko ordered to invite the attorneys general of Russia and Ukraine to the country to investigate the situation with the detained militants. On August 9, he said that since the attorneys general did not come to Minsk, it means they “don’t give a damn about these guys.”
On August 12, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine approached the Attorney General of the Republic of Belarus with requests for the extradition of 28 Wagnerites (nine of them were citizens of Ukraine), who actively participated in hostilities on the territory of Donetsk. and the Lugansk regions as part of the terrorist organizations “LPR” and “DPR” …
On August 14 it emerged that the Belarusian authorities had extradited the arrested Wagnerites to Russia. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy considered this to be a hostile move by Belarus. In his opinion, the consequences of the release of the mercenaries “will be tragic”.
The editor-in-chief of “Censor.NET”, Yuri Butusov, said on August 18 that the trip of the Wagner PMC fighters to Belarus was part of a special operation of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense and the Defense Service. Ukraine Security: A plane with mercenaries was supposed to land in Ukraine and then stop them. According to Butusov, the special operation failed due to the decision of Yermak and Zelensky to postpone the departure of the militants from Minsk from July 25 to 30, as well as the leakage of information from Ukraine.
Oleksandr Turchynov, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said that information about a special operation to arrest the Wagnerites reached the special services of Russia and Belarus after a meeting with Zelensky, which they attended, in addition to the heads of the special services of Ukraine, by the heads of the Office of the President. He, like the former Attorney General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, noted that the special operation has been carried out since 2019.
The former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Bogdan, said that the operation to capture Wagner’s PMC mercenaries was thwarted by a man “from the closest circle” of Zelensky.
The SBU called this data a “fantastic scenario.” The new head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said that the PMC Wagner fighters were transferred to Minsk by the Russian special services and that this was not a special operation of the SBU.
Zelensky said there was no “drain” on the special operation to arrest the Wagnerites.
Yermak described the version about the SBU’s involvement in the Wagnerites’ appearance in Minsk as a disinformation campaign.
On February 27, 2021, Butusov announced that he had been evicted from his home and deprived of his protection by former GUR chief Vasily Burba, who, according to the journalist, testified about the failure of the operation to capture the Wagnerites. . Police denied the information.
March 6th Edition ZN.UA reported that The office of the president of Ukraine tried to negotiate with MI6 over the absence of the Bellingcat investigation into the Wagnerites. According to journalists, Budanov and the deputy head of the Office of the President Roman Mashovets attended a meeting in Kiev with representatives of British intelligence.
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