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Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the convening of a temporary commission of inquiry to investigate the failure of the special operation of the Ukrainian special services to arrest the militants of the private military company Wagner.
The fifth president of Ukraine, the leader of European Solidarity, Petro Poroshenko, said that it was he who authorized the operation of the Ukrainian special services to detain the fighters of the Russian private military company Wagner in 2018. He announced it today on the air of the Big Politics program on Channel 5.
“I want to state that at the end of 2018, the then Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, authorized this operation,” Poroshenko said.
He stressed that the failure of the operation was treason and indicated that he will seek to bring those involved to justice.
“I emphasize that I will not let them shut down, speak, slander or evade responsibility for committing a crime, high treason, where, through the efforts of dozens of Ukrainian heroes, whose goal was to bring to Ukraine and judge those who were involved in the downing of the MH17 plane, and did not judge innocent [генерала Вооруженных сил Украины Виктора] Nazarov for the Il-76 shot down with paratroopers at Lugansk airport, “Poroshenko said.
He noted that the special operation was thwarted and “thwarted by specific individuals.”
“I strongly recommend the creation of a temporary commission of inquiry, I strongly recommend questioning all participants in the process and immediately removing those who may influence the objectivity, independence and honesty of the investigation, which will definitely be carried out,” he added. Poroshenko.
July 29 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 the detainees under the article on the preparation of terrorist acts, then 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, Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, said that he would extradite detained militants to Ukraine if Kiev proves their involvement in the Donbass 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 that “they don’t care about these guys.”
On August 12, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine approached the Office of the Prosecutor 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 the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as part of the “LPR” and “DPR” terrorist organizations …
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 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, a 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 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 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 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 version about the SBU’s involvement in the Wagnerites’ appearance in Minsk a disinformation campaign.
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