how “declassified” PMC commander Wagner

Full of mysteries and fantasies story commander mysterious private military company with callsign “Wagner” "Fontanka" the beginning of the end 2015 of the year. During 2016 he gained first name, face, biography and got on the first channel, writes journalist Denis Korotkov online “Fontanka”.

Session mystical revelations Wagner stretched for years. Vague rumors about the appearance in the Donbass unidentified forces in the form of “Wagner PMCs” turned first to the information on its deployment and conditions of service, continued data on state awards fighters. Crown of stories - “nonexistent” commander at the presidential reception in the Kremlin's St. George Hall.

Rumors about Wagner and his team have spread from the beginning 2015 of the year. Ostensibly he was disarmed by Luhansk brigade “Odessa” and held Brigade Commander Thomas. Ostensibly it was he who appeared with armored vehicles on the most threatening parts of the front. No one saw him, but rumors, no one knew, and who knew, he did not tell.

From the evidence of the existence - blurry pictures armored cars “Shot” Yes videotape summer 2015, where the wounded fighter Novorossiya recognized issued it out of the fire Ukrainian military: “My commander - Wagner”.

In addition to the legends of Wagner, spread rumors about the appearance in the Donbass “Slavic housing” - forming, in force in September - October 2013 year in Syria. After returning to his homeland commanders Vadim Gusev and Yevgeny Sidorov body went under arrest for mercenaries, and the men went home - thus, “Slavic housing” ceased to exist and could not appear under the Lugansk and Donetsk. But rumors have given a direction finding.

Old friends told “Fontanka”, what “Slavkorpa” does not exist, but veterans do not go around and formed the backbone of the new unit - the same, who became famous as the PMC Wagner. Tell about the Wagner - allegedly a former military from the Army Intelligence, which 2013 She was left in the reserve, I got a job at PMC Moran Security Group, and then in Slavonic Corps. spring 2014 Wagner, According to our interlocutors, I found a new job - financing, a base for training and serious cover for informal military structure, which got its name.

To top 2016 of the year “Fontanka” I get an idea, what a PMC Wagner, I heard about the place of its permanent location at the hamlet Molkino in the Krasnodar region and were able to get acquainted with receipts, are familiar with the recruitment of fighters signed. Terms of Service - vow of silence about the fact of service, signing paper, how to remove all responsibility from the employer, and 240 rubles per month fighting work.

the end 2015 year - both times during the relocation of the main forces of Wagner from the Donbass in Syria. Separate groups went there before, but this, apparently, were relatively few commands. Some experts were less secret, since the beginning 2015 , they were seen for the repair of military equipment of the army of Bashar al-Assad and his allied forces.

In Syria, went up, and fights, and loss. How many fighters have lost Wagner, It is unlikely to be exactly known ever. More or less reliably known about the loss of nine people during the shelling of the location unit in the fall, aware of the New Year in the battles dozens of dead and wounded in the assault and Palmyra spring, but exact figures are not “Fontanka”. nor the other reporters did not work. But in the spring we talked about the commander Dmitri Utkin and even were able to show his photo.

“Fontanka” received and published documents premium killed in the storming of Debaltsevo, and photo fighter awards, who found death in Syria.

meticulous criticism, verifies number orders with the same winning numbers, obtained legally and openly, reproached “fontanka” even in non-compliance and fraud. “Fontanka” fraud is not involved. It is not only, that the awards are given not strictly in numerical order, so that the period of the awards can be judged only about, and in that, that rewards the families of Andrew Elmeeva and Arthur Schreiner, as well as the relatives of another victim under Debaltsevo - Gregory Mechtanova - handed the chairman of Togliatti City Council Dmitry Mikel and deputy commander 3 brigade GRU Guard Colonel Andrei Novik in the presence of four hundred men,, and wrote about the event the regional press (true, confusing the name of Andrei Elmeeva and specifying it as Emelyanova). ostensibly Elmeev, Schreiner and dreams were veterans of the Chechen campaign, but the rewards are lost. And then through the years of the Order we found them in one day after, they both died in the Donbass.

After our publication in late March, judging by the evidence have been in Syria, the main forces were withdrawn from Wagner Arab Republic. Was there a reason for the article, reveal incognito commander and show the state awards fighters, or detachment just completed the task, - We do not know. But by the summer 2016 year in Syria, according to our data, there were only a small group of especially skilled professionals and repairers.

But we have been able to assume, how it could be financed. Among Utkin entourage were seen retired St. Petersburg police, that, As far as the wording, after the dismissal of officials working for the security service close to the Kremlin, the billionaire Eugene Prigogine. “Fontanka” shopped business Prigogine, whose structure in recent years has taken a leading position in the army of public procurement market, and found a vast array of uncontrolled “black” cash, it is sufficient to pay for the private Battalion. The result was the publication of a powerful DDoS-attack on our website.

Summer 2016 It dawned relatively quiet for Wagner, just n, according to “Fontanka”, Most are in Russia, I have visited our city. In the web from time to time surfaced photos and videos with obscure men of Slavic appearance, fighting in Syria. But little and rarely.

1 August Syrian province of Idlib ground fire was shot down a Russian helicopter Mi-8, on board of which there were five people. Russian Defense Ministry reported, that three crew members and two “officers of the Russian mission to reconcile the warring parties” killing. on the edge of the frame. Back to camera. But then he turned around for a few seconds, and doubts have disappeared. Who know him personally interlocutors “Fontanka” assured: no doubt, It is he.

Two days later, the question answered President's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov,, and intrigue ended: “Dmitri Utkin was really a gentleman of Courage awards, it was really from the Novgorod region”. true, sands “does not know”, Do you have Utkin “fighters in Syria” and what kind of feats, he was awarded the Order of Courage. supposing, that for courage.

In this epic Wagner, detachment commander ghost, is now complete. He is no longer marginal to the callsign instead of a name, working on an unknown host. Dmitri Utkin, officially recognized the Motherland Hero, received the President of the table, - the figure of another scale, concludes Denis Korotkov.