A conflict arose between the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and the Wagner private military company (PMC), which is managed by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's cook".

On Sunday, December 18, military analyst Oleksiy Hetman told the FREEDOM TV channel about his reasons.

According to him, Prigozhin's private army during the war in Ukraine did not always coordinate its sorties with the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.

In particular, we are talking about the combat operations near Bakhmut, during which the "Wagner" PMK uses assault groups of 10-15 people, attacking at night with the use of electronic reconnaissance and UAVs.

At the same time, in the first ranks, they send "mobs" to fight, who report directly to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu, that is, the regular Russian army, and then they attack themselves.

The Hetman suggested that in this way "Putin's cook" is trying to demonstrate that his group is a higher-quality, trained military formation than the regular Russian army.

"In this way, they want to show that due to the large number of dead people, it is precisely from among the mobilized, that here, they say, the administration of the generals, the administration of the Russian army, they do not really know how to properly conduct combat operations, unlike private military companies." , - said the expert.

Oleksiy Hetman noted that the "Wagnerians" are indeed more prepared, unlike the mobilized Russians.

"In addition to the war with Ukraine, they have an internal war going on," the expert claims.

It will be recalled that Russian prisoners who joined the ranks of the private military company "Wagner" are shown videos of brutal executions of deserters before being sent to the front in Ukraine.

So they try to discourage mercenaries from wanting to run away from the battlefield.

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