A few days before the events with PMC Wagner, American officials knew about the plans of the fighters of a private company. It is reported by The New York Times.
According to media reports, on June 21, intelligence officials warned members of the administration, the Department of Defense and the US Congress about this. When exactly the scouts received this data is not specified.
Washington has been following the development of the situation with PMCs for several months, the media writes, citing a leak of secret American intelligence documents. It is noted that the United States allegedly managed to intercept the negotiations of “high-ranking Russian military leaders.”
According to CNN, U.S. and other Western intelligence officials have warned congressmen “about the movement and buildup of weapons” of PMCs near the Russian border.
Recall, on the eve of the Center for Public Relations of the FSB reported that all information disseminated in social networks on behalf of the founder of PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin about “rocket and bomb attacks inflicted by the Ministry of Defense on the rear units of PMC Wagner is untrue and is an informational provocation.” The same was said in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. As a result, the FSB Investigation Department opened a criminal case against Prigozhin under the article on organizing an armed rebellion.
As RIA Novosti wrote, on June 24, Wagner fighters arrived at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don. The regions began to introduce restrictions on the roads and cancel mass events. In Moscow, the Moscow and Voronezh regions, the authorities introduced the CTO regime.
On the evening of June 24, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the situation with the Wagner PMC was resolved without further losses, with the participation of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, an agreement was reached on the return of the group to their camps. Prigozhin himself will leave for Belarus, and the criminal case against him will be dropped.
The situation was resolved thanks to the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who held talks with Prigozhin. As specified in the Kremlin, the case against the businessman will be stopped, and he himself will be able to leave for Belarus under the guarantee of Vladimir Putin, they said there.
Source: Rosbalt
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