Researcher José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes believes that Vladimir Putin’s speech marks the end of the Wagner Group.
“Here there is clearly a message of separation between a nucleus of mercenaries responsible for what happened, which does not explicitly say who they are, including Prigozhin, who until now headed the Wagner Group, and the rest of the mass of combatants who are undergoing a dismemberment process. of the Wagner Group as we knew it is underway,” said TSF the researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI).
José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes does not believe that “Vladimir Putin will somehow change the high military command as Prigozhin intended” and it will be seen later if “if this process proceeds normally, without major internal friction until the end of June as was the scheduled date, or if there would eventually be a reaction.”
“And obviously what Prigozhin is going to do at this moment when he is being clearly removed from the scene, contrary to the political ambitions he had to climb the scale of power, is obviously in question,” says the researcher.
José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes still doubts that, after the rebellion and Putin’s speech, something will change in the war in Ukraine.
“It is not clear that this is going to significantly change the dynamics of the war in Ukraine, although obviously we will have to wait and see if it affects it or not. All of this is premature to make any very confident statements. The Wagner Group was already diminishing it in importance. By the way, this is probably the heart of Prigozhin’s rebellion. He felt that from the peak of the Bakhmut battle, where he was wounded and then he was not given the reward he wanted, he was already exhausted, and his group of functions, “anticipates the researcher.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, addressed the Russians on Monday, after the first statements by the leader of the Wagner Group after the rebellion against Moscow. The Russian head of state thanked the Russians for their “patriotism” and assured that the military of the Wagner group have two exits.
According to the Russian leader, the soldiers who led the rebellion may join the country’s army or, failing that, they may go into exile in Belarus.
Source: TSF
