86 billion rubles from the budget were spent on the Wagnerians over the year, minefields interfere with the advancement of the Armed Forces. What happens on the front line • The Insider • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive
86 billion rubles from the budget were spent on the Wagnerians over the year, minefields interfere with the advancement of the Armed Forces. What happens on the front line
86 billion rubles from the budget were spent on the Wagnerians over the year, minefields interfere with the advancement of the Armed Forces. What happens on the front line
27 June 2023
In today's report:
The criminal case on the fact of the rebellion was terminated, but, from the point of view of the current norms of law, it is illegal;
Alexander Lukashenko told how he persuaded Prigozhin not to storm Moscow;
Vladimir Putin said that 86 billion rubles were spent on the maintenance of the Wagnerians from the budget for the year;
After the rebellion of the PMC, Wagner of the Russian Guard will receive heavy weapons and tanks;
Armed Forces cannot overcome minefields on the approaches to Russian positions;
On the anniversary of the tragedy of the blow to the shopping center in Kremenchug, Russian missiles were re -released again;
The German concern Rheinmetall will put 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks in Ukraine, but only in 2024;
There was a video of a Russian tank with the most impressive of the still known protective barbecue.
We will remind, earlier it was reported that the criminal case against Prigozhin will be terminated for the arranged rebellion, and he himself will receive the opportunity to “go to Belarus”.
The FSB of the Russian Federation reported on the closure of the case, since the participants in the events "stopped actions directly aimed at committing a crime." Although three days before in a separate release, the department wrote about Prigozhin as follows:
Prigozhin’s statements are actually calls for the beginning of the armed civil conflict in the Russian Federation, and his actions are “blowing in the back” by Russian military personnel who are fighting with pro -fascist Ukrainian forces.
From the point of view of the current rule of law, the termination of the criminal case looks illegal. As the project “Lawyer Street” explains , in criminal law the “armed rebellion” belongs to the so -called “formal” corpus delicti. They are over from the moment of certain actions-it does not matter whether any consequences have occurred.
Thus, the foundation indicated in the FSB Central Union Center-“participants in the armed rebellion stopped the actions directly aimed at committing a crime”-is not provided for by Russian criminal or criminal procedure legislation.
In addition, it is not clear why the investigative body ignores the facts of the murder of the Russian military, the destruction of army equipment, damage to property and other consequences of the armed rebellion.
The Belarusian Gayun project drew attention to the fact that the business jet related to Evgeny Prigozhin flew on the morning of June 27 at the Mashkyairfield .
As for the Wagner PMC, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted a message about the preparation of the transfer by mercenaries of heavy military equipment to the current units of the RF Armed Forces. If such a transmission really takes place, the new “march of justice” by the forces of the Wagnerians will no longer be able to organize.
At the same time, the head of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov spoke about plans to receive heavy weapons and tanks. According to him, this issue was discussed with Putin. He did not name the dulks of the supply of gold, noting only that this would depend on financing.
The head of the Russian Guard also stated that his subordinates worked correctly during the attempt of an armed rebellion last weekend. To the questions of journalists about why the Prigozhin column managed to advance so quickly and almost freely during the rebellion, Zolotov told about the intentional “concentration of forces” in Moscow .
Analysts Dmitry Alperovich and Tom Bullock, commenting on Zolotov’s statements, note that the Russian Guard either ignored the passage of the Wagner PMC columns, as in Rostov-on-Don , or generally surrendered without a single shot, as at the Bugaevka border room.
On the afternoon of June 27, President Putin during a rather strange event in the Kremlin gathered security forces and suddenly performed in front of the military from the porch of the Granovite Chamber. According to him, they "actually stopped the civil war" in Russia, standing "in the way of unrest, the result of which the chaos would inevitably be."
The president also declared a minute of silence in memory of the pilots who died during the rebellion. Who exactly killed them, Putin did not specify. The surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin, as in all his last performances about the rebellion, he did not name. During the speech, Putin later said that they spent on the maintenance of mercenaries from the state budget for a year from May 2022 to May 2023 86 billion 262 million rubles:
The voiced figures allow you to assess the average number and loss of Wagner PMCs. With a salary of 240 thousand rubles per month (as of the summer of 2022 ) and a salary fund at a level of 5.8 billion rubles a month, a little more than 24 thousand people are obtained. Prigozhin himself, going to the “march of justice”, said that he had 25 thousand fighters at his disposal.
In a similar way, you can evaluate the losses of mercenaries. As far as is known, in the PMC Wagner is paid 5 million rubles for the deceased and up to 1-2 million rubles in case of severe wound (for example, amputation of the limbs). Based on the indicated amount of 110 billion rubles of insurance payments, this would be enough for relatives to compensate 22 thousand dead or 55 thousand seriously wounded (with compensation of 1 million rubles). Since Prigozhin previously recognized the losses only in the battle for Bakhmut at the level of 20 thousand killed (which means at least 60 thousand wounded), it can be assumed that a significant part of the families of the dead and wounded fighters did not receive the due compensation.
At the same time, according to Putin, Prigozhin, Concord, earned 80 billion rubles in the supply of food and nutrition in the army.
Alexander Lukashenko spoke about how exactly the rebellion was stopped, speaking to Belarusian officers at the Independence Palace. He stated that he persuaded Putin not to “wet” Prigozhin and go to negotiations:
I realized: a cruel decision was made - to wet. I invited Putin not to rush. Come on, I say, talk to Prigozhin, with his commanders. To which he told me: “Listen, Sasha, is useless. He doesn’t even pick up the phone, he doesn’t want to talk to anyone. ”
According to Lukashenko, after that he tried to contact Prigozhin when he was in Rostov-on-Don . The organization of negotiations was attended by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, General Yunus-Bek Evkurov and the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov:
At 11.00, he <Zarozhin - The Insider> instantly picked up the phone. That is, Yevkurov called him, gave him the phone: "Here, the president of Belarus calls, will you talk?" - "I will be with Alexander Grigoryevich." I hear their conversation. He picked up the phone. The conversation is euphoria. Eugene has complete euphoria. We spoke the first round for about 30 minutes in mature. Exclusively. There were 10 times more words (I then analyzed) (I then analyzed) than normal vocabulary. Of course, he apologized and began to tell me with obscene words.
According to Lukashenko, after persuasion and threats that the Belarusian army would defend Moscow , Prigozhin agreed to deploy the column. Lukashenko called the rebellion the competition between the army and the PMC: "The interpersonal conflict between famous people grew into this fight."
It should be noted that, judging by the almost complete absence of personnel on June 24, the military columns (and not the Russian Guard) in Central Russia, combined arms formations to counteract the Wagnerians could really be transferred from Belarus . However, there are still serious issues to them regarding combat readiness, combat spirit and the ability to quickly transfer to hundreds of kilometers.
Lukashenko also told what, in his opinion, Wagnerians in Belarus will do. He believes that they will “help” and “tell” about important moments at the front, “tactics, weapons, and how to advance, how to defend”.
The Conflict Intelligence Team research group notes that even if 8 thousand Wagnerians, that is, a third of the 25 thousand fighters declared to Prigozhin at the beginning of the rebellion, will go to Belarus after him, their number will already be comparable to the personnel of the ground forces of this country. Therefore, according to researchers, most of the mercenaries will nevertheless go to official power structures or return to peaceful life.
According to CNN, the Americans turned to Kiev during the rebellion with a request to “not use chaos” within Russia to strike in order not to create the impression that the West and Ukraine help Evgeny Prigozhin and threaten Russian sovereignty. The Epistle “Do not Swing the Boat” was transferred at the level of foreign ministers, deputies and through ambassadors. The source of the channel noted:
Allies warned Ukrainians not to provoke the situation. Use opportunities in Ukraine, but do not get involved in internal affairs and do not strike at offensive military facilities within Russia.
In addition, the material notes that representatives of American intelligence were surprised by how little resistance met Prigozhin.
Several sources informed CNN that American and Western officials believe that Putin was simply caught by surprise Prigozhin’s actions and did not manage to prevent the seizure of control over the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don . At the same time, Western officials note that Prigozhin would not allow Moscow or the Kremlin to capture (CIT believe that the Vagnerians would be able to take, for example, the Ostankino television tower ). According to officials, this is probably why Prigozhin agreed to conclude a deal with Lukashenko and ultimately deployed his troops.
The situation at the front
So far, attention is focused on the events in Russia, the Ukrainian military successfully advance in several directions in the south and east. According to the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrei Kovalev, an offensive operation continues in the Melitopol , Berdyansk and Bakhmut directions .
At the borders of Novodarovka - shelter and Novodanilovka - the worker, the Ukrainian military successfully continue the fire defeat by the artillery of the identified goals of the enemy.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are also conducted by offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction in the areas of the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilievka , Ivanovo , Kurdyumovka . According to the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the offensive is successful, Ukrainians are fixed on the achieved lines.
“Military” VGTRK Evgeny Poddubny writes about “increasing efforts” of the Armed Forces in two southern directions: in the area of the Antonovsky bridge on the left bank of the Dnieper and on the approaches to the worker (south of Orekhov ).
Roman Saponkov publishes a map of the situation that has developed next to the Antonov bridge , and notes that technically Ukrainian military personnel landed on the island of Antonovsky , and until the left bank of the Dnieper, they need to overcome almost 4 km.
The Ukrainian OSINT-resource Deepstate claims that on a video widely dispersed in social networks with the battle of Russian paratroopers and Ukrainian saboteurs in the area of the Antonovsky bridge, friendly fire is actually captured. The footage from the Ukrainian drone shows how one of the groups of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation arrived to eliminate the Ukrainian “bridgehead” takes positions in the private sector, and then the BTR-82A who came up with the same position, apparently took them as the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Wargonzo “military commander of the“ military commander ”Semyon Pegova indicates the regrouping of both Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Zaporizhzhya direction and states that after the loss of Rivonopolof the time of time (a small territory under the control of the Russian troops at the junction at the junction of the Zaporizhzhya region and the“ DPR ” ) is finally“ cut off ”the Russian Armed Forces - now the shelter - Old Maidor - Old Mayor - Novodonetsk - Pavlovka.
The Rybar Telegram channel related to the Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, notes that after establishing control over Rino sex , the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped additional positions in the vicinity of the village under the cover of a tank platoon of the 31st mechanized brigade. Currently, two assault groups of the 31st OMBR and DRGs of the 36th Obremp took positions at the line of Levadnaya-Rivonopol for the attack of the shelter .
"Militarycate" Alexander Scholkov reports that the APU attacks do not stop on the area of the nuts - the worker :
In this site, artillery is rattling in the early morning. The enemy scores our first trenches with rockets and shells, his infantry over the shaft of fire bursts into them, we score the enemy’s artillery in the same trenches, we again go to the previous positions.
The complexity of the situation in the Zaporizhzhya direction is evidenced by the appeal of wives and mothers of the mobilized from Moscow and the Moscow Region , who complained that the soldiers deployed in Tokmak were aimed at the contact line. At the same time, as the wives say, armored vehicles were taken from the soldiers by order of the command. They also said that there was completely no support by artillery fire, which led to critical losses. The survivors were forced to retreat.
In response to this, a message appeared in the Romanov Light Telegram channel that when going to the position, the fighters were sleeping and the weapon was scattered. The very unit in the direction called "Sobyaninsky" is well equipped, there are even televisions and prefixes for games in the dugouts, not to mention body armor.
The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov showed a video with allegedly to prevent the attempt of Ukrainian DR to break into the territory of the Belgorod region . He stated that Akhmat fighters with artillery fire prevented an attempt to break through in the direction of the settlements of Shchetinovka and Bogun-Gorodok .
In mid -June, the Chechen leader said that Akhmat fighters will protect the border territories of the Belgorod region from saboteurs by agreement with the head of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov. At the same time, the local Telegram channel "Pepel" reported with reference to sources among the military that the Kadyrovites occupied "at best 3-5 echelons of defense."
Harvard University Professor Graham Allison in his material for The Washington Post notes that Ukraine has only a few weeks to return its territories. Kyiv should use any advantages that it has in the war with Moscow, including internal problems, the expert notes. Stagnation in hostilities will lead to the transition of the conflict to the new phase, in which supporters of Ukraine in Europe and the USA will join those who insist on the beginning of negotiations. The professor is convinced that if the parties come to an agreement, then each of them will consider the achievements that were achieved by the time of the agreement. Then, Ellison said, the world will celebrate the end of the conflict and call it the “world”, but the Ukrainian territories will remain with Russia.
The New York Times notes that three weeks after the start of the counterattack, critical for Ukraine’s prospects, the Armed Forces face a number of unpleasant problems. One of them is an extensive strip of minefields that protect the defensive line of Russia.
“Everything is mined everywhere,” the edition of Lieutenant Ashota Harutyunyan quotes, the commander of the unit, who, with the help of the drone camera, saw a mine exploded under the BRADLYA BMP and stopped the promotion of the Ukrainian column.
Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot overcome large minefields that close the approaches to Russian positions. In addition, intensive artillery shelling and airlines are applied to them using Ka-52 helicopters. These difficulties turned the initial phase of counterattack into protracted battles, concludes The Nyt.
As far as Ukrainians are really difficult to overcome, you can understand by (extremely shocking) video , which is distributed by pro-Russian Telegram channels.
On the frames, which, most likely, were shot during an unsuccessful attack of the 47th mechanized brigade north of the worker on June 8, Ukrainian fighters hurry with Bradley and immediately undermine on mines, after which they are trying to evacuate them under artillery shelling for a long time.
Mutual shelling and sabotage
Russian troops struck a missile blow to Kramatorsk . According to the latest data, four people were killed due to a missile strike and 42 people were injured, reports the Donbass Realities publication with reference to the police of the Donetsk region. According to the authorities of Ukraine, among the dead - a child of 2008, among the victims - three foreigners.
On the afternoon of June 27, the Russians launched the same missiles along Kremenchug , which last year at the shopping center. The speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuri Ignat reported on the air of the telemarathon:
Tu-22M3 are carriers of the K-22 missiles. A year ago, the same rocket hit the shopping center in Kremenchug. A year later, they again beat the same rocket, again in the direction of Kremenchug. At least two aircraft were seen in airspace, and at least two missiles were recorded during this attack.
Глава Полтавской областной военной администрации Дмитрий Лунин сообщил, что ракета попала в дачный кооператив, жертв нет.
Глава аннексированного Крыма Сергей Аксенов заявил, что в Кировском районе произошла очередная диверсия, повреждены железнодорожные пути. С рельсов сошел первый вагон грузового поезда. According to him, there are no victims. Движение поездов было временно приостановлено, но власти обещают восстановить сообщение в кратчайшие сроки.
Как отмечает «Рыбарь», при выводе путей из строя фактически парализуется движение составов на север Крыма , то есть снабжение российской группировки в Запорожской и Херсонской областях с полуострова ограничивается.
Кроме того, как сообщает «военкор» Юрий Котенок, ВСУ попытались атаковать полуостров при помощи БПЛА. По его данным, беспилотник был сбит средствами ПВО и упал недалеко от Джанкоя . Дрон был самолетного типа и нес на себе взрывчатку.
Losses
Президент Путин на встрече с военными рассказал о потерях ВСУ с начала контрнаступления:
С 4 июня, то есть с момента начала так называемого контрнаступления, противник утратил 259 танков, бронемашин — 780, а только на Ореховском направлении, которое противник считает главным направлением удара, и только за последние семь суток противник потерял 280 единиц техники, из них 41 танк и бронемашин — 102.
Постепенно в публичном поле всплывают имена погибших в ходе мятежа ЧВК Вагнера военнослужащих ВКС РФ. Издание «Важные истории» выяснило , что вторым погибшим летчиком Ка-52 был командир 3-й эскадрильи воинской части 44440 Алексей Ворожцов (15-я бригада армейской авиации, дислоцируется на аэродроме Веретье в Псковской области ). Об этом сообщил «Важным историям» источник, знакомый с ситуацией в ВКС.
Глава Комитета Госдумы по обороне Андрей Картополов заявил в разговоре с The Insider, что не знает точно, возбуждено ли дело по фактам гибели военнослужащих. Он пообещал, что будет проведено разбирательство:
По поводу гибели летчиков никто никакого дела не прекращал... Я не знаю, существует оно или не существует, но я знаю, что в любом случае будет проведено разбирательство и необходимые решения будут приняты в рамках действующего законодательства.
Ранее сообщалось, что потери российской армии в результате военного мятежа могли составить от 4 до 20 человек.
Что касается плачевной ситуации с санитарными потерями в ВС РФ (о чем, в частности, говорил Евгений Пригожин, когда находился в штабе ЮВО в Ростове-на-Дону ), то во многом это объясняется дезорганизацией работы и плохим снабжением военно-медицинских учреждений (подробнее об этом можно прочитать в большом материале The Insider).
Weapons and military equipment
Как сообщает издание Tagesschau, немецкий концерн Rheinmetall поставит в Украину 14 танков Leopard 2A4 от имени правительства Нидерландов. Первый из них планируется передать в январе 2024 года.
Главы МИД Евросоюза приняли решение увеличить объемы Европейского фонда мира на 3,5 миллиарда евро, из которого Брюссель выделяет деньги на поставки оружия Украине. Об этом сообщается на сайте Совета ЕС:
Это решение призвано обеспечить финансовую устойчивость и предсказуемость фонда в долгосрочной перспективе, а также сохранить его глобальный географический охват и способность ЕС предотвращать кризисы и конфликты и быстро реагировать на них.
Одним из узнаваемых элементов российских танков после начала вторжения в Украину стал «мангал» — решетка, наваренная над башней, чтобы защитить технику от противотанковых ракет. Появилось видео российского танка с самым впечатляющим из известных до сих пор защитным мангалом. Пророссийский канал «Военный осведомитель» полагает , что дополнительные конструкции призваны защитить танк от попадания FPV-дронов в лоб и в моторно-трансмиссионное отделение.
Пророссийский Telegram-канал «Есть такая профессия…», связанный с артиллерией, опубликовал фотографию 152-миллиметрового артиллерийского выстрела, поставленного ВС РФ, как сообщается, из Китая. Telegram channel "Tanks. История и современность» предполагает , что на самом деле метательный заряд (одна из составляющих выстрела) произведен в Иране, а китайский снаряд (другая составляющая) попал туда еще во времена Ирано-иракской войны 1979–1989 годов. Исследователь Calibre Obscura отмечает , что снаряд, судя по всему, произведен в 1983 году, а упаковка выстрела не соответствует оригинальной китайской, то есть согласен с версией реэкспорта, однако сомневается в иранском происхождении заряда.
