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Is Wagner Group Being Pulled From Ukraine?
Putin’s chef showed how to make the secret sauce and now Russia doesn’t need him — so they think
Rumor on the street is that Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group will slowly be transitioned out of Ukraine.
Prigozhin’s success and the open criticism of the Russian military have finally scared Russia’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, enough that he has convinced Putin to reel in Wagner.
The Wagner group ingeniously solved a problem the corrupt Russian military couldn’t. It sent the nothing men of society, the convicts whose return from prison few await, to the front to fill gaps in the lines. Assigned to charge enemy positions, they have been successful where Russia’s civilian conscripts would have most likely failed.
Repeatedly charging Ukrainian positions, they managed to make slow, bloody progress while sparing tanks and the poorly-trained conscripts whose death could create more political trouble for Putin. While they charged and died by the thousands, with barely a peep from anyone back on the homefront, Russia was also able to buy time for the conscripts allowing them to get some training.
Prigozhin problem-solved and when his convicts managed to distract Ukrainian defenders, his well-trained mercenaries…
