The sensational arrest of suspected militants PMC Wagner in Belarus could be a provocation by the Ukrainian security services

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Recruitment and support for participants of the delayed group was with virtual phone numbers, tickets for the groups were acquired through a Ukrainian travel Agency, and immediately after his detention on July 29, the Ukrainian Embassy in Minsk was handed over the lists of detainees

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The sensational arrest of suspected militants PMC Wagner in Belarus could be a provocation by the Ukrainian security services. Recruitment and support for participants of the delayed group was with virtual phone numbers, tickets for the groups were acquired through a Ukrainian travel Agency, and immediately after his detention on July 29, the Ukrainian Embassy in Minsk was handed over the lists of detainees. About it to “Komsomolskaya Pravda” said a source in the Russian special services.

Recruitment began with a call from Syria. A “Mr. Jackson” calling former members of the so-called PMC Wagner to collaborate on the protection of oil facilities in Syria. On mobile really highlights the code Arab Republic, but, as it turned out, the room was virtual and it is available only for outgoing calls. In this case the caller asked about the level of experience and training, including management skills “Beeches” and familiarity with the Russian military in the area ATO, and gave to understand that is one of the high chiefs PMC Wagner. And from mid-may, the negotiations have joined a security Manager “Rosneft” Sergey Viktorovich was presented.

One of the veterans of the fighting in the Donbass Artem Milyaev volunteered to recruit a group for “working abroad”: the set of people he for some reason used the paraphernalia eliminated in 2018 PMC “Mar”, and then sent personal data with photos and details of Bank cards to the email address He. It is noted that people with such data appears only in the state of “Rosneft”, but also in Russia in General. And the e-mail address is not registered in Russia and stopped working on July 31, two days after the arrest of Russians.

6 Jul allegedly “from Rosneft” Milyaeva reported that the previous curator had died in Libya, and a few days came to him a new handler by calling already with the Venezuelan rooms. The room was owned by the consular Department of the Embassy of Russia in Caracas, but without the possibility of outgoing international calls. New curator suggested to shift under “projects “Rosneft”, breaking the assembled team into five groups. Four of the squad had to move to Minsk, 24 July, 26 July, 4 August and 6 August, another group had the naval deployment to Venezuela. In the first game were mostly people who had previously Ukrainian citizenship and fought in the Donbass.

The departure from the capital of Belarus on the route Istanbul – Havana – Caracas was scheduled for July 25. 10 days before this Milaeva e-mail came a copy of flights of Turkish airlines with departure from Minsk on July 25. The tickets looked like purchased via the Internet website of the Kiev firm Must Go, but with the details of the travel company Coral Travel. Through the office of Turkish airlines in Moscow, it was established that the tickets were purchased at the Agency, registered on the territory of Ukraine.

When booking was given contact information of firms located in Kiev and registered in January 2020, and in the chain of purchasers of tickets have been built by the Ukrainian company “izi travel Ukraine”. Tickets for the other group were acquired by a Ukrainian company. But first the group met in the way, their tickets in Istanbul was first rebooked and then cancelled, what they learned only on July 25. The situation was complicated by the fact that they were instructed to destroy old tickets, and all payments in the framework of the “project” was carried out exclusively in cash, to the chain of payments was more difficult to track.

On the border with Belarus the Russians showed their copies of the contracts with the company “RN-West”. Tickets have been in visa – a citizen of Belarus Gennady KOMPAN, which he sent with unregistered addresses “Rosneft” and printed on the nearest to the border of the gas station. All contracts and print turned out to be fake, and the alleged signatory is the head of the firm Rustamov has been living in Samara. The placement of Russians in Minsk was engaged in Larisa Samarina, who introduced himself as an employee of the Russian Embassy in Istanbul and a specialist of “Rosneft”. She also used a fake phone number that the cellular networks were not registered.

The authors of the article also draw attention to the fact that immediately after the arrest on July 29 at the Ukrainian Embassy in Minsk was handed over the lists of detainees: the authors suggest that the Belarusian special services were in close contact with the Ukrainian, having received information from them about the arrival of “saboteurs”. This explains the words of Lukashenko on July 24 on “foreign PMCs”, which is going to put things in Belarus riots.

The SBU was to strike simultaneously at the PMC Wagner, “Rosneft” and the Russian-Belarusian relations, and the possible extradition of Russian citizens to Ukraine would be a good response to the incident in the Kerch Strait. “According to our data, the materials on this RAID has already been transferred to the Investigative Committee, which, in the words of our interlocutor, will give a procedural assessment of this “production”. It is hoped that in Minsk they also take a closer look,” conclude the authors.