Wagner chief offered to give Russian troop locations to Ukraine, leak says

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/14/prigozhin-wagner-ukraine-leaked-documents/

No paywall
https://archive.is/vqAwI

In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer.

Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord.

Prigozhin has publicly feuded with Russian military commanders, who he furiously claims have failed to equip and resupply his forces, which have provided vital support to Moscow’s war effort. But he is also an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who might well regard Prigozhin’s offer to trade the lives of Wagner fighters for Russian soldiers as a treasonous betrayal.

The leaked document does not make clear which Russian troop positions Prigozhin offered to disclose.

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[lapfog_1]

1. If I were Prigozhin, I wouldn't get near any multi-story buildings

Unless they don't have windows.

[niyad]

2. discord? Isn't that the site that national guardsman was using to download

all that supposed "secret" information?

[Nevilledog]

4. This is info FROM that leak

[relayerbob]

3. More likely

This is disinformation intended to cause even more dissent within the Russian leadership.

[Nevilledog]

5. Works for me

[Lovie777]

6. Did they leave him?............

I saw a video where Russia soldiers were fleeing.

[RockRaven]

7. Someone is trying to get this guy killed...

Which is rather understandable.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Pooty Poot can't be too happy