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The publication date of the Bellingcat investigation into the interruption of the special operation to detain the Wagner PMC fighters involved in the war in Donbass and the downing of flight MH17 was postponed due to the author of the investigation, Hristo Grozev, he was invited by the President’s Office to Ukraine, promising to express his version of events, but did not keep his promises, journalist Dmitry Gordon said.
On March 15, 2021, the first part of Bellingcat group leader Hristo Grozev’s investigative film on the interruption of the special operation to stop the Wagner PMC fighters involved in the Donbass war and the downing of flight MH17 was for being released. However, the presentation fell through due to the fact that Grozev was promised to give a comment in the Office of the President of Ukraine, but the promises were not kept. Dmitry Gordon, founder of the GORDON publication, said this in an interview with journalists Yuri Butusov.
“I must say right away that this film will appear on April 5, more or less a few days. According to my information, Hristo Grozev received a call from the Office of the President and invited him to Ukraine, promising him security and promising to provide him here with several people who they are supposedly related to Hristo Grozev and he flew to Ukraine. Therefore, the film did not come out on the 15th, because he flew here, where he expected to film the employees of the President’s Office and other people. Gordon said.
According to him, no one met the Bulgarian investigator in Kiev, provided him with security, and no one answered his calls at the Office of the President of Ukraine.
“Hristo Grozev, a respected person with a lot of authority, telephoned both the Office of the President who invited him and other people. There was silence. And then Hristo Grozev filmed seven interviews here. Among these seven people, Yuri Butusov, two officers of the main directorates of military intelligence, who participated directly in the special operation, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Zabrodsky, “added Gordon.
See also: “Zelensky did not understand what was happening. He was completely misinformed.” Gordon and Butusov on the failure of the Wagnerian special operation
He clarified that Grozev also interviewed Ukraine’s fifth president Petro Poroshenko, who authorized the special operation in 2018 and, according to unverified information, with former NSDC secretary Oleksandr Turchinov.
“I’ll say it again: the first part will be released on April 5, more or less a few days, since the Kiev material, which appeared suddenly unexpectedly, will be released. The second part is scheduled, apparently, in August – September. And there will also be a feature film that will be shot for [онлайн-платформы] Netflix, “Gordon summarized.
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On July 29, 2020, the Belarusian authorities announced the arrest of 33 foreigners who were 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.
On August 12, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine approached the Office of 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 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 leakage of information from Ukraine.
Oleksandr Turchynov, former secretary of Ukraine’s Defense and National Security Council, 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 former Ukraine attorney general Yuriy Lutsenko, noted that the special operation had been running 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 GUR, Kirill Budanov, said that the Wagner PMC 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 stop 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.
On March 6, ZN.UA reported that the Office of the President of Ukraine was trying to negotiate with MI6 about 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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