The Russian governor Sergei Aksjonov is in charge of the annexed peninsula of Crimea. He is said to have hired his own mercenary force. She also worked in Ukraine.
Sevastopol – Jegweni Prigozhin is now internationally known. He is the head of the Wagner mercenary group, which fights for the Kremlin in Ukraine. In addition, Prigozhin is an influential man in Moscow. He is said to have clashed with Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin in the past. However, experts have doubted whether the argument was genuine or whether it was staged.
Apart from the Wagner group with their boss Prigoschin, there is probably another group of mercenaries: “Convoy”. This group is said to be owned by Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian governor of the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
War in Ukraine: Convoy leader Pikalow appears in public as “Masiai”.
Like the Russian medium Important stories reports that soldiers from Convoy are also fighting in the Ukraine war. The group consists of 300 fighters and its leader is Konstantin Pikalov, a confidant of Yegveny Prigozhin. In addition, the entire command should consist of former Wagner employees. Pilakow has already worked for the Wagner Group in Madagascar and Central Africa and now also appears in public, but not with his real name, but as “Masai”. In Russian media, he is described as the “commander” of the “Convoy Assault and Reconnaissance Unit.”
Ukraine war: “Convoy” speaks of “Ukrainian Satanists”
According to the research portal Bellingcat Pikalov was or is an employee of Wagner boss Prigozhin. Pikalov was in the Central African Republic in July 2018 – about three weeks before three Russian journalists who wanted to investigate the role of Russian mercenary troops in the country were murdered there. He was also the only one on the Africa mission who was able to speak to Prigozhin on an equal footing.
Convoy shares loudly Important stories also via Telegram posts about “strong orthodox Russia”, about Ukrainian “satanists” as well as conspiracy theories, “how the Rockefellers bought Ukraine’s water supply and are now using a special chemical composition to paralyze the parts of the brain responsible for identifying a person are responsible'”. (LP)
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