"Putin's cook" worries Moscow - US experts report on the new Kremlin plan
Created: 11/28/2022, 4:48 am
By: Franziska Schwarz
The influence of Yevgeny Prigozhin, inventor of the "Wagner" mercenaries, seems to be a concern for the Kremlin.
News ticker on the military situation in the Ukraine war.
"Putin's cook"
worries
Moscow
: Russia's military is said to be planning more paramilitaries
"Wagner" mercenaries
in the
Ukraine war
: Secret service reports on Russian counter-offensive
Yanukovych friend
as a counter for
Prigozhin
?
"Private military company" planned
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news ticker on the military situation in the Ukraine war
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Update from November 27, 7:50 p.m .:
According to the Ukrainian general staff, Russia will now move troops previously sent to Belarus to Ukraine.
This was announced by the General Staff in Kyiv in its daily evening report.
For example, the Russian military leadership wants to increase units that have suffered heavy losses and strengthen the grouping of Russian troops in occupied Ukrainian territories.
Military equipment will also be relocated for this purpose, the General Staff said.
Currently, the Russian military is concentrating on restricting the actions of the Ukrainian military and continuing attacks against civilian infrastructure.
Ukraine War: Russia resumes missile strikes on Ukrainian cities
Update from November 27, 4:11 p.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, the city of Kryvyi Rih in the south of the country was hit in a Russian rocket attack.
Two rockets destroyed a transport infrastructure facility on Sunday morning, the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, said on the Telegram news channel.
He did not give details.
The military administration called on the population to take shelter in air-raid shelters.
There were explosions in the city.
Nothing was initially known about victims.
Air alerts have been sounded in several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Nikopol district north of the Dnipro River was also shelled with shells and heavy artillery.
On the night of Sunday, two rockets also hit a farm in a suburb of the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, the military said.
There were no dead or injured
War in Ukraine: British intelligence reports heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine
Update from November 27, 1:23 p.m
.: Russia has suffered many casualties in the hard-fought Donetsk region – this is how the British secret service currently estimates it.
In the last two weeks there has been intense fighting around the cities of Pavliwka and Wuhledar, with heavy casualties for the marines, according to the latest report by the Ministry of Defense in London.
London also sees the fighting as a sign that Russia sees the region as a possible starting point for a northbound offensive.
Ukraine-News: Military governor reports massive Russian attacks on Kherson
Update from November 27, 12:02 p.m
.: The situation in Cherson is apparently still very critical: the Russian army has shelled the area more than 50 times since Saturday (November 26).
This was reported by the regional military governor, Yaroslav Yanushevich, who now accused Russia of terror and targeted attacks on civilians.
On Telegram he reported one dead and two injured.
Shells would also have hit residential buildings.
The information was not independently verifiable.
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First report from November 27th
: Kiev/Washington – Yevgeny Prigozhin not only keeps the EU Parliament busy, but also the Kremlin.
The Russian oligarch, who is also known as "Putin's cook" because of his interim supply to the Kremlin kitchens, announced in September that he had founded the paramilitary "Wagner Group".
"Putin's cook" worries Moscow: Russia's military is said to be planning more paramilitaries
"Wagner" mercenaries have been deployed in many conflict regions for years, especially in Syria and African countries.
The group operated in secret for a long time.
In October, it opened an official headquarters in St. Petersburg.
Critics describe the group as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "shadow army" for foreign operations - the Kremlin denies any links.
"Wagner" mercenaries in the Ukraine war: Secret service reports on Russian counter-offensive
Russia's military now wants to counter Prigozhin's troops with additional paramilitaries.
The aim is to weaken Prigozhin's influence.
This is how the US Institute for War Studies (ISW) assessed it in its war situation analysis on Sunday (November 27).
The Russian military intelligence service GRU reported the day before that Armen Sarkissyan was appointed as the new administrator of prisons in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Yanukovych friend as a counter to Prigozhin?
"Private military company" planned
The Russian-Armenian businessman Sarkissyan is considered to be close to the Kremlin and wants to use his new post to set up a "private military company," it said.
He is also said to have ties to Viktor Yanukovych, the former pro-Russian President of Ukraine.
Yanukovych once ruled in an authoritarian manner.
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