Wagner PVC wanted to buy a weapon for war in Ukraine in NATO countries - Washington Post
According to the secret documents of the Pentagon, representatives of the Russian PEC "Wagner" visited Turkey, which is a member of NATO to agree on the purchase of weapons and equipment to strengthen their positions during the war in Ukraine. The documents state that the Wagnerivtsi held a meeting with Turkish contacts in early February to discuss weapons through intermediaries. The African country had to become such mediators.
The documents state that the Acting President of this country, Assisima Goita, confirmed that Small can buy weapons in Turkey on behalf of the Wagner PEC. However, the secret documents do not specify whether the Turkish government knew about these negotiations and whether they were successful.
But exposing the fact that the NATO member country may have helped Russia in its war with Ukraine may be explosive, especially because Turkey is trying to block Sweden's accession to the Alliance, the US edition writes. The Turkish Government Representative refused to comment, and the Mali Embassy did not respond to the request to clarify the situation.
Also, the documents of American intelligence refer to the plans of the Wagner PEC on the recruitment of Russian prisoners for war in Ukraine and it is emphasized that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are dependent on the "Wagner".
The publication also writes that these secret documents of the Pentagon are demonstrating that US intelligence has penetrated deeply into the Russian armed forces and can warn Ukraine in advance about attacks and reliably evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. We remind that on April 7 there was information that the leakage of secret documents of the Pentagon, which were connected with the future counter -offensive of the Armed Forces.
The information about the New York Times was published about it. We remind that, according to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak, Russia has created the illusion of plausibility, using data from open briefings to deceive the authoritative media. At the same time, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK in an interview for the British newspaper stated that Ukraine would fight "to the last of us or of you.