Who Decided To ‘Stir The Pot’ With The Hands Of ‘Putin’s Chef’?

There are several versions.

Experts agree that the lightning campaign of the Wagner PMC columns against Moscow could not have been only the initiative of the leader of the mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin. More influential people could stand behind “Putin's chef”.

The Charter97.org website looked at who is called the main conspirators.

Political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky believes that a “collective actor” is visible in Prigozhin’s rebellion:

— I would call it the DKGB — deep KGB. Apparently, the State Committee for State Security is now striving to establish control over the army and, above all, its key structures for maintaining power, such as the SOF and the Main Directorate. Prigozhin has already announced the names of the Army General and Colonel General, who are scheduled for the positions of Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff.

Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Petro Chernyk also sees Russian special services among the conspirators:

— Perhaps, the “tower” of the FSB Patrushev-Bortnikov, which in this way probes how to “transfer” Putin himself, who decided to go to the end, and the food supply of all these guys is shrinking. In the Russian Federation, they should find someone to shift the blame on. After all, it is a disaster when the “second-best army of the world” cannot take a line of 50 km.

American historian Yuri Felshtinsky agrees that the putsch was inspired by the FSB:

— And now my hypothesis, which will either be confirmed soon or will be disproved with time: Lukashenka was not an intermediary in the negotiations between Prigozhin and the former director of the FSB Patrushev, but in the negotiations between Patrushev, who represented the FSB, and Putin. Prigozhin participated in these negotiations as a tool to put pressure on the President of Russia.

The coordinator of the European Belarus civil campaign Zmitser Bandarenka believes that the rebellion in Russia was organized by the “party of honorable capitulation”:

— This coup took place because they knew that the real physical Putin is inadequate and does not control anything. It was pressure on those pulling the strings that “guys, we also want to participate in the management of Russia, but in general we need to end the war, because we are not in a position to wage war against Ukraine and the whole world.”

According to Bandarenka, Lukashenka also participated in the coup. This is indicated by the fact that the usurper took his family to Turkey. However, Lukashenka betrayed Prigozhin.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov is also inclined to believe that Lukashenka supported the military rebellion.

Ukrainian observer Pavlo Vuyets draws attention to another figure — the governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, who is also close to the Wagner group:

— In the course of active negotiations between the Kremlin and Prigozhin, another figure surfaced — the governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, who acted as one of the key mediators (although he himself does not confirm this).

This name has been remembered by observers for several years when they reflect on Putin's future successor to the presidency.

The anonymous Telegram channel “General SVR”, which, according to its author, is run by a former general of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, believes that the military was behind Prigozhin:

— Everything happened in coordination with the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The march on Moscow was supposed to be triumphant with a split in the elites and clear support from society. It should be noted that Prigozhin’s friends from the Main Directorate of the General Staff fulfilled their part of the support and contributed to the unhindered movement of the PMC columns to Rostov, the capture of Rostov and blocked most of the attempts by the Ministry of Defense to block the movement of columns to Moscow.