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Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
3. This is Yevgeniy Prigozhin running this op?!? Isnt this the mobster who was indicted by Mueller
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 01:24 PM
Feb 2018

UH last Friday for running the troll factory “Internet Research Agency” in St. Petersburg?!?

“Putin’s chef”?!?

Holy SHIT, Eliot!!

From Mother Jones link:

A Russian oligarch? A businessman is commanding mercenary troops in Syria?

In intercepted communications in late January, the oligarch, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, told a senior Syrian official that he had “secured permission” from an unspecified Russian minister to move forward with a “fast and strong” initiative that would take place in early February….Among his various enterprises, U.S. intelligence believes that Prigozhin also “almost certainly” controls Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad.

….The attack marked the biggest direct challenge to the U.S. military presence in eastern Syria since U.S. Special Operations forces began deploying there in 2015….A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive issue, described the episode as “worrisome.” The official added that “it’s striking how the Russians themselves have been quick to distance themselves” from what he described as an operation “under Syrian command and in response to Syrian directive.”

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