"Dangerous amateur performances." The Russian military rejects the actions of the Wagner PMC

The operation in which dozens of Russians died was the initiative of local entrepreneurs, sources say

Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The attack on the oil refinery in the Syrian Deir Ez-Zor, during which dozens of Russian-bearers of the PMC Wagner were killed from the fire of American aviation, was not agreed with the Russian command, Kommersant’s Russian Military Source told Kommersant.

• The initiators of the operation were allegedly Syrian “large entrepreneurs who are currently supporting Bashar al -Assad.” They intended to capture oil and gas fields under the control of the Kurds - US allies.
• In August last year, Fontanka wrote that since 2017, the Wagner group was transferred to Syrian financing and supply, after which PMCs began to delay payments and serious problems with weapons, equipment and ammunition.
• Prior to this, the state and “high -ranking businessmen”, the main of which is the owner of Concord, Evgeny Prigozhin (he denies this), was spent on the maintenance of PMCs from 5 to 10 billion rubles a year. Here we have collected everything that is known about the construction, financing and participation of Wagner PMCs in hostilities.
• About 600 people armed with small arms, artillery and tanks participated in the attack on February 7, but without PZRK and air support, the colleague of the dead told Kommersant. Most of the detachment made up Russian -speaking fighters.
• “The whole calculation was that after the shelling, our factory would quickly storm this plant, the Kurds would throw weapons. And the Americans will no longer beat their own when a close battle is tied, ”the interlocutor of Kommersant explained. But by the beginning of the battle, only half of the detachment managed to turn around in battle order.
• The “Russian military source” claims that 11 Russians were killed during the operation. Officially, the Ministry of Defense reported only 25 dead Syrians.
• Other losses of losses vary from 13 ( “New Gazeta” ) to 217 people ( znak.com ). We wrote in detail about them last night.
• In the Russian Foreign Ministry, publications about hundreds of the dead were called "classical misinformation of the Western media." The Foreign Ministry, however, “checks the information about the victims”: “If confirmations appear, we will definitely inform about them,” the Kommersant said in the ministry.

What am I to me?

Losses during the attack on February 7 may be the largest during the Russian operation in Syria. We hope that in the near future we will hear from officials something more informative than the words about “classical misinformation”.

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Peter Mironenko, The Bell