Watch out and keep a lookout. It ain’t over until it’s over. And Yevgeny Prigozhin isn’t over.
Yet.
Yevgeny Prigozhin halted his invasion into Russia and the marched toward Moscow, a couple hundred miles away from that city, and was welcomed by Russians on his way. But he hasn’t retired from the Wagner Group. Sure, he made a U-turn and ended up in Belarus. But he isn’t in Belarus to establish roots and raise chickens.
BBC produced satellite photos of empty fields in Belarus a few days before the Yevgeny Prigozhin march toward Moscow. BBC followed with more satellite photos taken after the U-turn away from Moscow. The open fields were now filled with newly constructed barracks waiting for the Wagner Group mercenaries to leave Ukraine and settle in Belarus. But not to establish roots and raise chickens.
Maybe yes, or perhaps nothing more will happen, and the barracks will remain empty for perpetuity, but Vladimir Putin better keep a sharp eye out. It’s rumored Yevgeny Prigozhin doesn’t take prisoners.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Putin invaded Ukraine under false pretenses. It was all a lie. It was Putin’s lie. Putin’s announced denazification excuse for invading Ukraine was a lie. Vladimir Putin wanted to expand Russia’s land mass to re-establish the old Soviet Union. Russian and Ukraine soldiers were sacrificed only for Putin’s land grabbing dream.
So Yevgeny Prigozhin has gone to ground in Belarus for now, but only for a while.
And it's clear, he isn’t planning to open a new hot dog stand in Belarus.
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