“We are removing the flags of Russia and the private military company Wagner from our base in Molkino. The base no longer exists. [O grupo] Wagner is going to other places,” one of the mercenaries declared in a video broadcast on Telegram.
Another mercenary who was present during the recording specified, after the flags were removed, that the Molkino base “will officially cease to exist on July 30”.
At the same time, the Belarusian research project Gayun, which is dedicated to monitoring military activity in Belarus, reported on Monday the arrival of a new Wagner column, consisting of more than 100 cars, trucks and buses, to its new base near. From the city of Osipovichi.
This is the third column from the Wagner Group to arrive in Belarus in recent days, and according to Project Gayon, “everything indicates that it is not the last.”
Minsk confirmed last week that some of the Wagner Group’s trainers are already in the country, following the agreement reached in the wake of the rebellion against Russia’s military leadership on June 24.
The Belarusian Ministry of Defense also revealed that the paramilitaries have already started training the local forces.
We announce that the military department and management of the company [Wagner] It drew a short-term plan for preparing and exchanging experiences between the various military units.
On Monday, Minsk ratified an agreement signed with Russia on the establishment and operation of joint training centers for its army.
At the same time, no specific information has yet been released about the future of the Wagner Group in Belarus, nor the approximate number of members of the paramilitary force that will be deployed in this country.
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