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September 9, 21:14
Andrey Bogdan (Photo: Nazar Mazilyuk / pravda.com.ua)
The former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Bogdan, states that «The special operation “of the Ukrainian special services to arrest Wagner’s PMC militants was interrupted after a call from the” inner circle “of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon, Bogdan said that «he knows that everything was exactly like that ”, as the journalist Yury Butusov described the special operation. According to him, “everything is even worse there.”
Recall, according to Butusov, the “Wagnerites” were recruited by the Security Service of Ukraine.
He claims that intelligence officers tried to attract «Wagneritas “, as they previously participated in hostilities in 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 servicemen died. Apparently due to the intervention of the OPU, the militants were detained near Minsk by the Belarusian security forces and, as a result, handed over to the Russian authorities.
«In fact, a company was established there in Venezuela, personnel were hired, some people have already gone to work there for some specific towers. They were paid real money there, they really guarded the towers there. This is not just some kind of fairy tale … This operation is over a year old, super secret and super serious, ”said Bogdan.
The former head of the OP added that the special operation «ruined a phone call “:
«The person who made this call admitted that he did … from the closest (the entourage of the president – NV) “.
Bogdan refused to give this person’s last name, assuring that it will soon be «the prosecutor will tell. “According to him, Vladimir Zelensky himself did not cancel the operation, but agreed that it should be postponed for several days.
«The president was afraid of what would happen if we landed this plane and we have a truce … 97% of the president’s job today is to create a positive public relations image. And for him, the truce is the main request, “he added.
On July 29, Belarusian security forces announced the arrest of 33 militants from an unofficial private military company controlled by the Kremlin. (PMC) 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.
Journalist Yanina Sokolova published an audio recording that allegedly recorded the negotiations between the mercenaries and the SBU operative that recruited them.
In Bankova, the operation was denied, on the grounds that it was «rumors. “On September 9, the court ordered the SBU to investigate the possible betrayal of the OP chief, Andrei Yermak, in connection with the” leak of the special operation “on the” Wagnerites. “
