Russia is deploys Wagner group to eastern Ukraine in risky attempt to break deadlock
The move to activate private mercenaries would mean tacit recognition of Russia’s military failure to date.
According to estimates by Western intelligence, Russia has deployed hundreds of mercenaries from an elite, prolific private military contractor that has agreed with the government in eastern Ukraine to break the growing stalemate.
According to the British Ministry of Defense, convergence in the fired corner of Ukraine, known as the Donbass, is likely to highlight Russia’s influence elsewhere in the world, where troops called the Wagner group formed late Monday night. ,
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“He is expected to deploy more than 1,000 mercenaries, including the organisation’s top executives,” Britain’s vice-marshal Mick Smith said in a statement. “Russia has been forced to re-prioritize Wagner’s personnel at the expense of operations in Africa and Syria due to heavy casualties and a largely stalled offensive.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously called on foreign militants and organizations such as Wagner to join his cause in Ukraine.
The British government last week approved the Wagner Group, along with dozens of other influential Russian factions and leaders, in an effort to crack down on Putin’s closest centers of power and its global ambitions. The mercenary network – and the unacceptability of using it as a private company – has become synonymous with Russia’s most dishonest activities abroad.
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The latest deployment has echoed Putin’s government in Ukraine, not just tacitly accepting its military conflicts.
“Russia’s weak military performance will adversely affect its image abroad, making it less likely that nation states will seek Russian training and military relations with the military,” the private intelligence firm The Soufan Center reported this week. Note. At the time of Wagner’s deployment. “Without a strong military reputation, Russia’s military deployment, which is already associated with gross disregard for human rights, would not be so attractive.”
Monday’s assessment comes after other Western officials say Ukraine’s security surprise has ruined Putin’s war plan for the former Soviet state, which he did not provoke more than a month ago, and has since launched an increasingly brutal and bloody campaign. against civilian centers.
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U.S. military officials revealed last week that Russia had halted a planned invasion of Kiev after shameful reports that a 40-mile column had been stranded on the outskirts of the city without additional supplies or plans to move to the capital, Isu.
“They may now reconsider their strategic goals because they are no longer going to Kiev,” a senior U.S. defense official told reporters on Monday. “We’re not entirely sure what’s behind this revaluation.”
The failure to control airspace over Ukraine has become one of Russia’s biggest mistakes of all time. A U.S. official said most of the air strikes on targets in Ukraine now come from missiles and other projectiles based on Russia or a close ally of Belarus, suggesting that Russian planners are covering their pilots with Western-supplied anti-aircraft weapons. Afraid to be sent. to the airspace.
Putin has supported a possible separatist movement in the Donbass since 2014, when Russia also occupied the strategically important Crimean peninsula. Officials say part of Russia’s current operations to seize the strategic port city of Mariupol, south of the Donbass, are set to block Ukraine as it expands its position in the region.
Russia is deploys Wagner group to eastern Ukraine in risky attempt to break deadlock
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