How the Wagner group almost went nuclear
During their brief march towards Moscow last month, the Wagner Group came perilously close to obtaining nuclear weapons, Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, told Reuters. It seems that Wagner forces were marching on an old nuclear bunker called Voronezh-45 but the surveillance trail was lost 100km from the base. According to Budanov, mercenaries tried to get Soviet-era small portable nuclear devices (“backpacks”) but failed because the doors of the bunker were closed. A Kremlin-linked source confirmed that Wagner troops got into a “zone of special interest”, making the Americans “agitated”. Another source in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine said the Kremlin was concerned, which led to the agreement brokered by Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko. The White House said it has no evidence of nuclear weapons or materials being at risk.
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