Wagney Group soldiers have been asked to promise their loyalty after their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin supposedly passed away.
Anyone working for the military or supporting Russia’s military operation in Ukraine must promise to be loyal to Russia. After reaching a decision, Vladimir Putin officially announced it on the Kremlin website. The decision aimed to strengthen the values that protect Russia.
The promise includes a part where people agree to obey the instructions of their commanders and leaders.
Prigozhin died in a Russian plane accident on Wednesday, August 23.
For weeks, security experts have been calling the Wagner boss a “dead man walking” since his failed mutiny in June.
There has been a lot of guessing about what happened, but we still don’t have many details about the plane crash in Russia. We do know that the flight was going from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Petersburg is a city.
Vladimir Putin seemed to confirm that the warlord was killed in the incident and honored him in a speech on TV from the Kremlin.
The plane did not show any sign of a problem until it suddenly dropped in its final 30 seconds, as shown by flight-tracking data.
On Friday, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, talked about the rumors that Putin was responsible for the death.
He said: ‘Many people are guessing and wondering about this plane crash and the sad deaths of the passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin. ‘ In the West, everyone is talking about this topic from a popular perspective.
This is a complete lie. When talking about this issue, it’s important to rely on the truth. There are very few pieces of information available. This means they have to be set up during investigations.
The Russian government is looking into what occurred. They haven’t told us yet what they think made the plane suddenly drop.
The 10 bodies found in the crash have not been officially recognized yet.
The aviation authority of the country said that the people on the plane were Prigozhin, Sergey Propustin, Evgeniy Makaryan, Aleksandr Totmin, Valeriy Chekalov, Nikolay Matuseev, and Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Dmitry Utkin, who helped start the Wagner Group and is closely associated with Prigozhin, was believed to be one of the people who died.
There were three people on the crew. Their names were commander Aleksei Levshin, co-pilot Rustam Karimov, and Kristina.
British military intelligence said on Friday that they did not have definite proof that Prigozhin was on the ship, but they strongly believe that he is most likely dead.
Putin has not said if he will go to Prigozhin’s funeral. But Peskov said that the president is very busy right now.
According to Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British ambassador to Belarus, if Putin wants to show that Prigozhin was a traitor, he will choose to ignore his funeral.
Mr Gould-Davies thinks it will be an important event no matter what happens. Prigozhin’s followers might use it to praise him and his criticism of the Kremlin’s actions in the war.
This could make some Wagner loyalists even more hostile towards the Kremlin, he said.
After Prigozhin died, many graves of the Wagner Group were completely destroyed without a clear reason.
The local news says that they will cover the area where the Wagner fighters were buried with concrete.
The government of Samara Oblast has not made an official statement yet.