A spokesman for the centre, established by the Ukrainian army’s special operations forces, said: “Instructors of the Russian internationally-recognised criminal organisation Wagner PMC trained militants of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to attack Israel.”
During the Summer, Wagner fighters billeted in Belarus are understood to have left for Africa. Once there, they were “involved in training and transferring combat experience to Hamas militants,” according to the Ukrainians.
“This is exactly what the Wagner mercenaries trained Hamas militants to do during exercises in Africa.”
The Ukrainians said information came from sources in the Belarusian resistance.
The claim that the Wagner Group has been actively involved in training Hamas was also made by Russian anti-Putin channel General SVR, which alleged it was approved by the Kremlin. “Representatives of the Wagner PMC [Private Military Company] and the Redut PMC took part in the preparation of Hamas militants for an attack on Israel, in coordination with the Russian leadership,” the channel said.
Wagner – set up with the close involvement of Russian GRU military intelligence – was headed by formerly close Putin associate
There is speculation he was assassinated on Kremlin orders for leading an armed mutiny against Putin’s war commanders, or because he harboured political ambitions or knew too many secrets regarding the dictator.
“The next step, according to the Russians’ plan, should be false accusations of the Ukrainian military of selling Western weapons to terrorists on a regular basis.”