Budanov Says Russian FSB Assigned to Eliminate Prigozhin

[Kennah]

Source: Kyiv Post

Following an attempted armed rebellion in Russia, the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been assigned the task of eliminating Yevhen Prigozhin, the owner of the private military company “Wagner.”

This statement was made by Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in an interview with American journalist Howard Altman.

The Ukrainian intelligence press service reported this information on Friday, June 30, via Telegram.

According to the head of Ukraine’s HUR, the Russian special services have been given the assignment to assassinate the Wagner PMC leader.

Read more: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/18903

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Let the purge begin, Putlin!

[oldsoftie]

1. If that happens, I wouldnt expect Wagner forces to rush into the RU army.

Why bother

[marble falls]

8. If they want paid to fight, what are their other choices?

[oldsoftie]

11. They'll get shit wages from Putin. Wagner paid better.

And they'd probably be treated like shit by the commanders too
I think they're more likely to try to go elsewhere

[cloudbase]

2. Given the source,

it might be an attempt to sow (more) discord between Putin and Prigozhin. Good move by the Ukrainians.

[Kennah]

4. Whether it's true or false, it's good news

[cstanleytech]

7. Or also a false flag to let everyone in Belarus to relax with Prigozhin around

at which point he takes all them out with one blow allowing the Russian government to make sure they get everyone in power there that might oppose them.
After all not being able to do that with Ukraine like they were hoping to do with their puppet has made it hell for Russia taking Ukraine.

[2naSalit]

3. If that is true...

Which it isn't hard to believe, then Prigozhin would be wise to already be in Africa somewhere right about now.

[Kennah]

5. Even if he goes to Indochina, people sometimes hide in a bowl of rice

[2naSalit]

6. It all boils down to...

Who his friends are, if FSB guys are done with pooty and are in favor of Prigozhin, he'll live to see another war.

[AdamGG]

9. Since he has demonstrated that large groups may back him as an alternative to Putin...

and that he has the ego to take it on, I don't see how Putin lets him live. It's authoritarian dictator 101. I think they'll wait until the coverage dies down, but the odds of Prigozhin seeing 2024 or next spring are pretty slim. I wonder if he would have had more leverage for a better deal if he had surrounded Moscow before backing down.

Either way, he's even more of a far right nationalist than Putin, so his extermination probably won't be much of a loss.

[Eyeball_Kid]

13. It's possible that Prigozhin stopped his march to Moscow...

because he wasn't getting a lot of Russian military support. So he got as far as he could and called it good. If the Russian military showed their support, he'd have gone right in to Moscow unopposed. But he estimated that the resistance from the Russian Army would decimate his forces, since their supply of weaponry was far inferior to the Russian government's. The only way to succeed would be to feed off the Russian hardware, but that wasn't happening at a critical level.

So, yeah, Prigozhin's a goner. He won't be sleeping in the same bed on two consecutive nights. If true that the FSB or comparable unit was ordered to kill him, then the mission will be complete. These people, all of them, are barbarians. Humans are not valuable and can be easily discarded unless they serve a purpose by being kept alive. It's the way of sociopaths and many billionaires. They have a lot of power and an infinite supply of avarice. And they are controlling much of ongoing violence in much of the world.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. If true, its a shame he didn't complete his job

He may not have won, but he'd at least have created more chaos for Putin to deal with. Created more opportunities for Ukraine to take advantage of. He may have even inspired a revolt in the armed forces.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. putin, u created this . so, ur fault .