SBU: passport mercenaries PMC Wagner, who was in Africa, point out their connection with the GRU

Vasily Gritsak

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SBU has reviewed the passport 1012 Russian mercenaries involved in the “African expansion”, and came to the conclusion that the vast majority of these documents were issued in the FMS 770001 in the city of Moscow. In the same office received the documents for travel abroad Petrov and Bocharovym

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Passports arrive in the African country of mercenaries private military company Wagner belong to the so-called “grosnay” series, which indicates the relationship of their owners with the Main Directorate of the General staff of the Russian armed forces (former GRU). This was stated on Monday, the Chairman of the security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak on the official website of the Department. Passports the series received, for example, and used “solsberijsky tourists” Ruslan Bashirov and Alexander Petrov, who was involved in the poisoning Skrobala.

SBU has reviewed the passport 1012 Russian mercenaries involved in the “African expansion”, and came to the conclusion that the vast majority of these documents were issued in the FMS 770001 in the city of Moscow. In the same office received the documents for travel abroad Petrov and Bocharovym.

Most of the “vagnerova” document numbers are different, only the last two digits (same as passport Bashirova and Petrov).

All 1012 people were flying in the Central African Republic, Sudan and other African countries on a rotational basis from August to December 2018. The flights were organized by the company “M invest” within the framework of Prigogine, and to fly used aircraft Tu-154M 223-aircraft division of the Ministry of defense. The SBU came to the conclusion that PMCs Wagner is actually a “secret squad of freelance killers” Chief of the General staff of the armed forces.

According to the SBU, more than 90% of the fighters of the “Africa corps” in 2014-2015 “participated in military aggression against Ukraine.” In particular, they were involved in the assault Lugansk airport and debaltseve.

SBU has published a list of 149 people, which, according to them, at the beginning of 2019 participated in the suppression of anti-government protests in Sudan. Previously wrote about it the British newspaper the Times. In response, the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the Russian private instructors engaged in the Sudan only with the training of local security forces, and accused British journalists of a “continuation of anti-Russian campaign using the elements of misinformation,” says The Insider.

In November 2018, it was reported that mercenaries from PMC Wagner after participating in the fighting in the East of Ukraine and in Syria perform tasks in the Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR). Then, it was reported that they can go to Libya.

It is believed that PMC Wagner controls “Putin’s cook” Eugene Prigogine. The CEO of the management company of his restaurant holding company LLC “Concord management and consulting” Dmitry Utkin – the complete namesake of the alleged commander of PMC Wagner with the same nickname. At the end of 2016 Prigogine included in the sanctions list of the USA. In September 2018 the US state Department imposed sanctions against PMC Wagner, “the Agency’s Internet research” (“Troll factory”), the company Eugene Prigogine “Concord management and consulting” and “Concord catering”, and the Eugene Prigogine.

Earlier media reports found that the number of passports Petrov and Bashirova accused of attempted Skripal, are a special “grosnay” series. This conclusion was based on the fact that both agents, the numbers differed only by one digit and was very close to the number of another failed agent of the GRU – Edward Shishmakova (Shirokova). If Petrov and Shirokova rooms ended at 294 and 297, Shishmakova was the same passport number but with the end of the 323.

We will add, earlier the SBU showed interest in the activities of PMC Wagner in Africa. In December 2018, the secret service published the names of the mercenaries, the suspects in the brutal murder of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic.

We will remind, on July 31, 2018 in the Central African Republic was shot and killed well-known Russian journalist Orkhan Jemal, Director Alexander Rastorguev and operator Kirill Radchenko, who was shooting a film on PMCs Wagner. Members of the independent investigation came to the conclusion that from the moment you arrive in the Central African Republic journalists were “under the hood” of those who worked on the structures of Prigogine. In the end, a film crew with the participation of the police CAR was ambushed and destroyed.