Putin’s assassination of the Wagner mercenaries leader Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves him without critical military support in his invasion of Ukraine. But communist Cuba may be ready to fill that vacancy.
Frances Martel explains in Breitbart:
With Wagner’s Future Uncertain, Concerns Grow of Cubans Expanding Presence in Ukraine
Cuban diaspora media outlets, citing military and political experts, suggested this week that agreements between the communist Castro regime and its comrades in the government of Belarus could result in Cuban special forces taking on a significant role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Spain-based news site Diario de Cuba, citing former Soviet intelligence official Yuri Borysovych Shvets, reported on Wednesday that Minsk’s announcement in May that it would train Cuban soldiers could indicate that those forces may cross the border into the Ukrainian war theater.
“Cuba plans to send its special forces to Belarus, where they could be used against Ukraine,” Shvets reportedly warned.
In Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, members of the Assembly for the Cuban Resistance held a press conference warning that the Castro regime stands to increase its leverage as a significant ally for Russia in the Ukrainian invasion. Among the evidence presented for Cuba’s participation in the Ukraine invasion and growing military influence in Eastern Europe was the announcement by a senior Belarusian official in May that the Castro regime would send troops to the country for military training.
The potential of a heightened Cuban regime presence in the Ukraine war increased this week as the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), a Russian mercenary organization responsible for widespread atrocities in Ukraine, appeared to lose its top officials, including the head of the organization, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Russia’s aviation agency confirmed a plane crash on Wednesday killed ten people abroad a private plane flying north of Moscow. Prigozhin’s name was on the manifest, along with several other Wagner officials, but the Russian government said on Friday that it refused to confirm his death until the completion of DNA analysis on the corpses.
The crash occurred exactly two months after Prigozhin took his troops out of Ukraine and attempted a mutiny against Russian leader Vladimir Putin, marching thousands of soldiers towards Moscow for one night and capturing the city of Rostov-on-Don before the Belarusian government intervened. Communist Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko brokered a deal in which the Russian government dropped charges of staging an “armed uprising” against Prigozhin in exchange for him withdrawing his troops to Belarus, where they would undergo training.
As of this week, a large tent camp believed to house Wagner mercenaries in Belarus was mostly dismantled, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). While satellite images showed the tents had disappeared, the military equipment remained, leaving unclear who would operate it and to what end.
Wagner maintains a large presence throughout Africa, particularly in the Sahel region, where pro-Russian coups have swept at least four countries recently. Reports indicate Wagner fighters have not returned to Ukraine, however, leaving poorly trained Russian conscripts to lead the charge.
Shvets’s warning that Belarus was planning to send Cubans to fight in Ukraine preceded the plane crash that potentially killed Prigozhin. He made his claim based on high-level military exchanges between Minsk and Havana in the spring. On May 18, Valery Revenka, an aide to the Belarusian defense minister, posted a message on Twitter claiming that Cuban soldiers were on their way to Belarus for training.
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Cubans have no business fighting in Ukraine, but that wouldn’t stop Castro, Inc.’s faux “generals” from sending them there to serve Russia, same as happened in Africa. In his recent Africa trip, Cuba’s “president” actually had the gall to lay flowers in memory of Cubans who died there, not even as mercenaries who got paid well, but as cannon fodder for Russia. There is no depth to which the “revolution” won’t sink.