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| Funeral postponed: 'Wagner' is alive, but changed his passport |
| 2023-10-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Strelnikov [RIA] After the withdrawal of units of the Wagner PMC from the North Military District zone and the movement of some of them to the territory of Belarus and Africa, it might seem that the bright but controversial history of Wagner was over. Many in the West and Ukraine exhaled: the presence of the Wagnerites in certain sectors of the front meant only one thing - moving forward to victory, no matter what: remember Artemovsk (Bakhmut), Soledar, Popasnaya and other places where the most fierce battles took place. But it seems that the joy of our enemies was a little premature. This past week, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and retired Colonel Andrei Troshev, which presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called “routine” and “purely work-related.” However, the reaction in the Western and Ukrainian media to this completely working and absolutely routine meeting turned out to be very painful. The fact is that Andrei Troshev is the former chief of staff of Wagner, who, in fact, was responsible for the combat component of the PMC’s work. Troshev is a SOBR colonel, a former paratrooper artilleryman, a veteran of Afghanistan and Chechnya, and has the title of Hero of Russia for the capture of Palmyra in 2016. Troshev was also awarded two Orders of Courage, three Orders of the Red Star and a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. SOBR is a special forces component of the Russian ministry of internal matters (MVD) (Formerly KGB) Andrey Troshev enjoys unquestioned authority among the fighters of the Wagner PMC and until now oversaw the integration of the Wagnerites into the Ministry of Defense system on the Ukrainian front within the framework of the Redut and Volunteer Corps volunteer units. At the meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Troshev to engage in the formation of new volunteer units that “can perform various combat missions - primarily, of course, in the zone of a special military operation,” as well as “synchronizing” their activities with the Russian Defense Ministry. The presence at the meeting of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who also oversees the activities of Russian PMCs abroad, signals a new page in the activities of the Wagner PMC in the hottest area in an updated status, which includes all the opportunities, benefits and guarantees that apply to military personnel "regular" units of the Russian Armed Forces. According to Vladimir Putin, “regardless of the status of a person who performs or has performed combat missions, social guarantees for everyone should be absolutely the same. For the country, for the homeland, it makes no difference in what status the person fought and defended the fatherland.” According to expert estimates, the number of fighters of the Wagner PMC exceeded 50 thousand people, whose combat experience can and should be used: according to the ex-commander of the 16th Air Army, Lieutenant General of the Reserve Valery Retunsky, “our leadership, primarily based on experience of the Wagnerites’ participation in the Northern Military District, she is now well aware that the country really needs such private military organizations.” His words are confirmed by Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, who quoted the president, noting that the Wagner PMC "made a great contribution to the course of the Northern Military District and the liberation of the DPR regions . The heroism of these people will not be forgotten." According to official information, there is now a large number of volunteers wishing to join the relevant units fighting in the Northern Military District zone. At the same time, the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces announced that it does not plan additional mobilization measures. According to a statement by the deputy head of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff, Rear Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, “there are enough people willing to enroll in military service under a contract and volunteers who have decided to participate in the Northern Military District to complete the assigned tasks.” According to some reports, the Wagnerites have already been spotted in a number of areas where the SVO is being carried out, in particular in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and in the Kharkov and Zaporozhye directions. Against the backdrop of the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces exhausted and choked in blood and the introduction of previously untouchable reserves into battle, the question obviously arises of the transfer of the strategic initiative to the RF Armed Forces, and therefore of the prospect of a large-scale offensive, where the experience of the Wagnerites will be truly invaluable. The enemy, however, pretends that there is no threat and that they have “everything under control.” In a boastful interview with Western media, the deputy commander of the Eastern Group of Forces for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Cherevaty, said that “Wagner” as a combat unit was completely destroyed by the Ukrainian army,” and those who are now in the Northern Military District zone are “a useless, unprepared group of mercenaries who are being silenced holes." We will not destroy the rosy picture of the world of Pan Cherevaty and other talking heads of the Kiev regime, but will simply wait until the “useless and unprepared” fighters of the old-new “Wagner” play their favorite melody, the name of which is “Only Forward.” |
| Posted by:badanov |
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| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-10-02 23:36 |
| #3 ^I even looked up in original Russian and googled it. I guess it means airbourn deployable artillery. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-02 05:37 |
| #2 #1 SOBR colonel, a former paratrooper artilleryman SOBR = SWAT, but what the f@ck "paratrooper artilleryman"? Could be anything from a mortarman to an ATGM gunner, I would guess. |
| Posted by: badanov 2023-10-02 05:09 |
| #1 SOBR colonel, a former paratrooper artilleryman SOBR = SWAT, but what the f@ck "paratrooper artilleryman"? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-02 01:59 |