web counter
LEXO PA REKLAMA!

SHKARKO APP

App Store
Google Play

"Grey hair"/ Who is Andrey Troshev, the man Putin proposes as Wagner's boss

2023-07-15 11:16:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

"Grey hair"/ Who is Andrey Troshev, the man Putin proposes as

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to Wagner Group fighters that a top mercenary named Andrey Troshev command the private military group. The Russian leader has confirmed this to Kommersant newspaper.

The latter is known by everyone as "Sedoi", which in Russian means "grey hair".

Who is Andrey Troshev?

Troshev was born in April 1953 in Leningrad, in the former Soviet Union.

He a retired Russian colonel and a founding member and CEO of the Wagner Group, according to sanctions documents released by the European Union and France.

"Andrey Troshev is directly involved in the Wagner Group's military operations in Syria. He was particularly involved in the Deir ez-Zor area," reports CNN citing sanctions documents released by the European Union and France.

UK sanctions from June 2022 also state that “Andrey Nikolaevich Troshev was the chief executive of the Wagner Group. 

"He has supported the Syrian regime, been a member of a militia and oppressed the civilian population in Syria," the British documents state. 

For his service in Afghanistan, Troshev received two Orders of the Red Star.

Meanwhile, the fate of Wagner boss Prigozhin remains unclear.

He is reported to have traveled to Belarus as part of a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko after the failed uprising, but the Belarusian president told CNN last week that leader Wagner is now in Russia.

 

 





Lajmet e fundit nga