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The international organization Bellingcat is now working on an investigation into the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of a special operation to seize mercenaries from the Russian private military company Wagner and its interruption in the final stage. Hristo Grozev, Bulgarian journalist, media director, Bellingcat chief investigator, spoke about this in an interview with Ales Batsman, editor-in-chief of the GORDON newspaper.
He stressed that Bellingcat was able to find evidence that such an operation was indeed carried out by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Defense Ministry, together with employees of the Ukrainian Security Service.
The first part of the investigation Bellingcat promises to launch it in the first quarter of 2021, probably in February.
“We are currently working on a documentary, not only [текстовым] research on a very very interesting story made by the Ukrainian [военная] intelligence – said Grozev. – We will try to do this in two parts. The first is investigative journalism. You will use some of the information collected and the interviews. Most likely it will be in February. And the movie itself, long and high-quality, will be ready later, a year from now, [вероятно] fall “.
In this film, according to him, real participants in the special operation will be involved.
“I am sure that after that there will be at least one more feature film. But it will be in a year,” said the journalist.
According to Grozev, Bellingcat plans to nominate both films for cinematography awards.
“First [фильм точно подадим] for the Oscar documentary, said the journalist.
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July 29 Belarusian authorities reported the arrest of 33 foreigners who were in a private military company. The Belarusian Security Council stated that a criminal case was opened against the detainees 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 newspaper founder Dmitry Gordon, which aired on August 6, Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in charge of Belarus since 1994, said that he would hand over the detained militants to Ukraine if Kiev proves its involvement in the crimes in Donbass. Lukashenka 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 prosecutors did not come to Minsk, it means they “don’t care about these guys.”
On August 12, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine approached the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus with requests for the extradition of 28 Wagnerites (nine of them were citizens of Ukraine) who actively participated in the hostilities in the Donetsk regions. and Lugansk 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 PMC Wagner fighters to Belarus was part of a special operation of the Main Intelligence Directorate 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 the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak and Zelensky, to postpone the departure of the militants from Minsk from July 25 to 30, as well as the leak 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 special services of Ukraine, 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 foiled by a man “from the closest circle” of Zelensky.
The SBU called this data a “fantastic scenario.” The head of the Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said that the PMC Wagner fighters were transferred to Minsk by 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 stop the Wagnerites.
Yermak called the account of the SBU’s involvement in the Wagnerites’ appearance in Minsk a disinformation campaign.
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