2023-08-24 12:16:58
JAVIER ESPINOSA
Special delivery
Kiev
Updated Thursday, August 24, 2023 – 12:16
Ukrainians mock the disappearance of the head of the Wagner mercenaries, although experts recall that they no longer fight in the country and therefore it will have a very limited effect.
Prighozin, in his latest video, where he claimed to be in Africa, with “more than 50 degrees”.
He meme went viral on Ukrainian social media. It was about recovering the same message that he made public just two days ago Evgeny Prigozhinsupposedly from some African country.
“We’re working. The temperature is above 50, just the way we like it. Wagner is doing reconnaissance and search. We will make Russia bigger on all continents,” he could be heard saying, promising that his paramilitary forces would “fulfill the task that has been given to them.
It was the first video broadcast by the founder of Wagner since the failed coup in which he starred in Russia. It was also the last.
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Endowed with that peculiar sense of black mood that has accompanied the Ukrainians throughout the war, some wise man replaced the landscape of the original recording with another full of flames that seemed to simulate the biblical hell. Very appropriate for those “more than 50 degrees” about which Prigozhin spoke.
In fact, the disappearance of the paramilitary chief caused, in an almost unprecedented way, Prigozhin’s followers and the Ukrainians to agree on the whereabouts of the ex-convict and former hot dog vendor. The Zona Gris Telegram channel, linked to Wagner, dedicated an emotional farewell to him where he said that “even in hell will be the best”.
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Later, to influence the singular destiny to which they assume that their leader has been directed, they posted a video of an interview with Prighozin himself where he himself said that “we will all go to hell, but in hell we will be the best.”
The proliferation of memes in the Ukrainian virtual space was a reflection of the deep sarcasm and explicit approval with which the local population welcomed the announced death of Prigozhin, which according to the publication Nueva Voz was almost seen as an unexpected “gift” as it coincided in time with the Independence anniversarywhich is celebrated on the 24th of August.
There were those who recovered that old photo in which the leader Joseph Stalin appears, smiling with one of his main advisers, Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the feared Soviet police, and the “retouching” that image underwent in 1937 once Yezhov was purged by the dictatorwhat he did disappear from snapshot. “Russia will always be Russia,” the meme read.
Another preferred to place Chechen style beards to all the passengers of the airplane for that tendency that Moscow had to remove members of this community blaming them for any kind of outrage. And one more chose to post a picture of a row of roast chickens under the text: “Here are the Wagner boys”.
“I took out a bottle of French wine that I had in the cellar to toast for such good news. I have another champagne ready for when Putin dies“said Viktor Adamov, one of the passers-by walking through the Lviv city center late on Wednesday night.
There were some who trusted so much in the “evil” of the deceased that they did not believe that he had been murdered and continued entrenched in those attractive conspiracy theories.
“There is a thesis that says that he was not on that plane but on the second (another plane from the Wagner company landed in Moscow shortly after the event). That everything is a plan so that we all think that he has died and thus be able to hide“, recounted Anna Burdina, a Ukrainian linked to the local film industry.
Derision aside, Ukrainian experts agree that Prigozhin and his paramilitary forces they were no longer a relevant actor in the war scene of the country and therefore his death will not have a special repercussion on the battlefield.
For the analyst Serhii Grabskyi, his death “nothing will change at all. The enemy will continue marching towards death, obeying as slaves. What has happened was totally predictable. Since June 24, his life has been measured in a matter of weeks“.
Grabskyi also indicated that the rest of the names that appear on the passenger list constitute Wagner’s staff. “Is about All the team. Is he end of Wagner’s story“He added to the aforementioned publication Nueva Voz.
However, for the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps, a group of opponents of that country installed in Ukraine, the death of Prigozhin will have “a negative impact on the fighting spirit, morale and effectiveness of the Russian army as a whole, which brings us closer to victory”, according to the statement they made public.
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