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Yevgeny Prigozhin Offered to Give Up Russian Troop Locations for Safe Withdrawal from Bakhmut [1]

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Date: 2023-05-14

Yevgeny Prigozhin at a Wagner Funeral

According to the Washington Post, disclosures from the Discord Leaks indicate Yevgeny Prigozhin secretly offered to give up Russian troop locations for a guarantee for the safe withdrawal of Wagner mercenaries. From the Post:

In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer. Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord.

According to the article, Prigozhin has had secret contact with the Ukrainian intelligence directorate (HUR) and made the offer more than once. Neither Ukraine nor their American partners felt Prigozhin could be trusted and the offers were refused.

The leaked documents also detail Russia’s frustrations in how to handle Prigozhin’s escalating diatribes against the Russian Military and its leaders.

According to the article Prigozhin went so far as to encourage the Ukrainians to “push forward with an assault on the border of Crimea, which Russia has illegally annexed, while Russian troop morale was low.”

Damning if true, and potentially deadly to Prigozhin.

I’ve added a gift link to the article:

WaPo Article

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