"Return" of PMC "Wagner" under Bakhmut: Podolyak's commentary

This was stated by the adviser to the head of the Office of the President, Mykhaylo Podolyak, on 27 September.

Regarding the "return of the PMC "Wagner " to the Bakhmut direction". Remember: there is no longer any PMC " Wagner". It ended together with the liquidation of Prigozhin and Utkin, the raiding of the structure by the Shoigu-Gerasimov group and the mopping up of the leadership of the organisation," Podolyak wrote.

According to Podolyak, today there are only former fighters of the terrorist group PMC "Wagner", who have gone elsewhere: to Africa, to the civil-criminal life of Russian regions or signed a contract with the Defence Ministry and agreed to play the last chord, briefly plugging the Russian hole in the Bakhmut direction.

In Podolyak's opinion, the "media" effect of this event is greater than its real significance. And there is only one goal: to briefly try to block the news about the liberation of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka by the Ukrainian army and the destruction of the main combat-ready Russian formations in this direction.