The export of counter -revolution

At the beginning of this week, a group of PMC Wagner arrived in Venezuela. It is reported by Reuters with reference to three sources close to mercenaries. One of the sources is named by name - this is the chairman of the Committee of the All -Russian Officer Assembly "Cossack Ataman" Evgeny Shabaev .

According to Shabaev, there are 400 Wagnerians in the South American country. They arrived in two charter flights to Havana, and from there flew out regular flights to Venezuela.

Two other sources, however, said that only small groups of mercenaries are in the country. Which number is meant in the publication of Reuters is not specified.

Shabaev and another interlocutor of the agency called the Wagnerians the task of the guardian of the usurpator Nicholas Maduro. Ataman explained that we are talking about the fears of Maduro’s detention supporters of revolutionary power from among their own security officials.

One of the anonymous sources Reuters said that the mercenaries arrived in Venezuela for the second time. Prior to that, they came to the country on the eve of the Presidential elections of May not recognized by democratic countries last year , the winner of which was announced by Maduro.

Meanwhile, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov told the agency that he did not have information about the presence of the Wagnerians in Venezuela.

Maduro's presidential term expired on January 10. The national assembly of the country did not recognize his inauguration for a new term; On the 15th, the parliament declared Maduro a usurpator. In the current Wednesday, Juan Guydo, the speaker of the National Assembly, took the oath as the acting president . The powers of Guaido were recognized by the United States, Canada, Georgia, Albania and a number of Latin American states.

Meanwhile, Russia states that Maduro is the legal president. On Thursday, Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with a usurper.