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2021-11-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Capture of 33 Wagner operators in 2020 was the work of the Ukrainian special services.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
By Alexander Kots
[KP] HOT SUMMER 2020
What I, the special correspondent of "KP" had more than a year ago, fit into one newspaper spread, the investigators of Bellingcat managed to stretch it into two parts. And they actually confirmed the version of the Russian special services, which was first announced on the pages of Komsomolskaya Pravda. The British newspaper, which is associated with Western intelligence services, finally told what happened in Minsk last summer.
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Ukraine immediately sent a request for the extradition of these detainees with surname lists. They say they fought in the Donbass on the side of the separatists. Our citizens are under the threat of a show trial in Kiev. Meanwhile, the Russian special services urgently found out what kind of people they were and how they got there. The first information was transmitted to Minsk via special channels, and a few days later the "Wagnerites" were released and they returned home.
"Komsomolskaya Pravda" was the first to write that the Russians were lured to Belarus as a result of an ingenious special operation.
Ukrainian experts convinced them that they would fly to Venezuela to guard Rosneft facilities as part of a private military company. There were no flights from Russia at that time due to covid restrictions. Therefore, Belarus has become a transit point. However, something went wrong in Minsk, and local security officials drew attention to a group of tough guys.
WHAT IS THE FACT
At first, in Ukraine (and in Russia too), many were skeptical about this version. However, then details began to leak out. And in Kiev, the emphasis was on the fact that information about the operation was leaked to Moscow by someone from the circle of Vladimir Zelensky. It was only thanks to him that the combination was revealed.
Bellingcat and the Bulgarian adventurer journalist Hristo Grozev have been feeding their audience "breakfasts" for a whole year, promising to rip off all the covers and name the traitor. And now, the long-awaited premiere in two parts. What do we see?
To implement their plans, the Ukrainian special services created a fictitious PMC "Mars", which recruited former Donbass militias. The announcement of the recruitment to the company was given simply through Avito (as I wrote more than a year ago, but they laughed at me).
Having drowned in the stream of applicants, the recruiters singled out one, Artyom Milyaev (call sign "Shaman"), who took up the selection of the team (as "KP" wrote).
Money for the expenses of "Shaman" was transferred through intermediaries to Russia and deposited through payment systems
Recruiters contacted candidates from fake Syrian and then Venezuelan numbers, recruiting security guards at Rosneft facilities (as KP wrote).
When I read stories, all in Russian, I was under the impression that the now-fictional PMC Mars simply provided guards, like Wackenhut.
Money for the expenses of "Shaman" was transferred through intermediaries to Russia and deposited through payment systems (ATMs, I published a photo of this process).
A total of 120 people, selected by Milyaev, it was decided to divide into several detachments, which were to go to Belarus in turn. Although Ukraine was only interested in the first group (for the second, for the sake of reliability, tickets had already been bought, and the fifth was supposedly supposed to go by sea, as KP wrote).
The tickets from Minsk to the transit Istanbul were bought by the esbones through a Ukrainian tour operator (this fact in my publication last year became the reason for a lot of jokes: well, scouts can't be so stupidly punctured!).
TICKETS FROM MINSK TO TRANSIT ISTANBUL WERE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UKRAINIAN TOUR OPERATOR
The plane with the "Wagnerians" was supposed to land in Kiev after it was in the Ukrainian airspace. The options were considered "sick" on board, who urgently needs help, or a terrorist threat (as "KP" wrote).
Zelensky learned about the operation a month and a half before it began and "generally approved the plan" (very indicative).
The day before the start of the operation, the head of the main intelligence department of Ukraine and the deputy director of the SBU could not get to Zelensky.
The day before, he agreed with Russia on an armistice in the Donbass from July 27, and, of course, the capture of 33 Russians would jeopardize the ceasefire. The head of the President's Office, Andrei Yermak, suggested postponing the day of the capture of 33 Wagnerites for a week, but due to problems with tickets, the delay was five days. (these are fabrications of the authors, who admit that they cannot confirm them).
But then something went wrong. On July 29, "33 heroes" were suddenly arrested in Minsk. On July 30, the SBU transmits data on the detainees (this is where the members of the Wagner PMC appear in our history, you probably asked this question).
Output. The delay in the departure of the former militias from Minsk in anticipation of the entry into force of the armistice in Donbass led to the disruption of the special operation. A curtain.
Ukrainian experts convinced the Wagnerites that they would fly to Venezuela as part of a private military company to guard the facilities of Rosneft.
WAS THERE A TRAITOR?
And what does Bellingcat have that would not have been previously published in Komsomolskaya Pravda? Recordings of recruiters' conversations, original application forms, autobiographies, handwritten.
In general - materials of operational development, which were undoubtedly shared with the authors by Ukrainian and Western intelligence officers. Russian counterintelligence officers did it a year ago, sharing their materials with KP.
What Bellingcat lacks is the slightest mention of foreign involvement in the operation. Meanwhile, according to the Russian special services, the whole venture was overseen from start to finish by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Specifically, CIA residents in Kiev Timothy James Skovin and Brian Thomas O'Burn.
In September, by the way, the American television channel CNN showed its investigation on the same topic and with the same texture. Only he did not hesitate to mention the involvement of the CIA in the operation.
Who knew about the impending act of air piracy long before Zelensky was informed about it. And nevertheless, in fact, the President of Ukraine authorized the "hijacking of the plane."
After all, this is how the West and Kiev called the landing of the liner with the Belarusian oppositionist Roman Protasevich in Minsk. And they imposed sanctions on Belarus, which Ukraine also joined.
And where is the name of the Ukrainian "mole" who passed the entire operation? Yes, there was no "mole". Kiev still had a chance to pull these "33 heroes" out of Minsk even after their arrest by the Belarusian KGB. But the Russian counterintelligence worked to anticipate, which quickly and efficiently unraveled this tangle, naming almost by name all those involved in the first act of state prank.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda 
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