1/ The military commander of the Wagner Group, Anton "Lotus" Elizarov, is reported to have been fired. The move is said to be the result of interpersonal conflicts and Wagner's disastrous defeats in Africa in 2024. A former GRU major is slated to replace him. ⬇️ - ThreadSky

chriso-wiki.bsky.social • 55 days ago

1/ The military commander of the Wagner Group, Anton "Lotus" Elizarov, is reported to have been fired. The move is said to be the result of interpersonal conflicts and Wagner's disastrous defeats in Africa in 2024. A former GRU major is slated to replace him. ⬇️

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kevingrobinson.bsky.social•54 days ago

I see an air crash or a rooftop or a drive by bridge shooting or a staircase or a window or a poisoned hot beverage in Antons not too distant future. When you fail Putin you lose everything. Watch this space fir an announcement.

georgeadamson.bsky.social•55 days ago

Don't actually believe such a person as a 'former' GRU officer exists.

freeshrugfella.bsky.social•55 days ago

He just can’t take it. #Felloggs

joyilta.bsky.social•50 days ago

😂 😂

aletheian1.bsky.social•55 days ago

After the Azov fallout with Korotkhy & others, Utkin cried off back to the tramp nation to birth Wagner. . will this fall out see the birth of Lotus PMC?
Plenty of tickets left for the Koncert....Iosef is always warming his vocal chords.

ladidayaya.bsky.social•55 days ago

I hope his replacement is equally competent.

jolenska.bsky.social•55 days ago

I wish them the worst. They incarnate the worst of Humanity. May this replacement to be accelerating the decay of this group.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

2/ The Russian warblogger Anastasia Kashevarova writes that Elizarov left the Wagner Group before the New Year at the instigation of Yevgeny Prigozhin's son and heir Pavel, who took over Wagner following his father's death in August 2023.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

3/ Kashevarova presents a number of reasons for Elizarov's dismissal:

"1. When the brigade commander was chosen, not all commanders were present at the Council.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

4/ "2. While the main staff of the PMC were busy with work and stunned by the death of the leadership, Lotus flew to Russia on board the Ministry of Defence (this is a separate story) to be the first to be near Prigozhin Jr.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

5/ "3. After Lotus became the head of the PMC Wagner, the entire main commanding staff left the company along with their fighters.

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

6/ "4. The attempt of the PMC ‘Wagner’ to join under the banners of the Rosgvardia [Russian National Guard] failed, again because, as they say in ‘Wagner’ and confirmed by sources in the Rosgvardia,…

chriso-wiki.bsky.social•55 days ago

7/ "…that Lotus demanded unrealistic staffing and set impossible conditions for the state. And state agencies did not want to do business with him.

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