MADRID, 25 AUGUST (EUROPA PRESS) –

The UK Ministry of Defense has indicated this Friday that it believes that the death of Yevgeni Prigozhin in the recent plane crash will have a “deeply” destabilizing effect on the Wagner Group, the mercenary company he has led until now.

“It is almost certain that the loss of Prigozhin will have a very destabilizing effect on the Wagner Group,” the UK Ministry of Defense Intelligence Service said in a statement.

The British authorities pointed out that Prigozhin’s character, as well as the “hyperactivity”, “extraordinary courage”, “lust for results” and “extreme brutality” that permeated the mercenaries he led, were qualities that “impossible” that they were next in line.

In turn, Wagner’s “leadership vacuum” was widened after it was discovered that among the passengers on the plane that crashed last Wednesday were two other members of the group, such as founder and commander Dimitri Utkin and head of logistics. Valery Chekalov.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the House of Commons Defense Committee, Tobias Ellwood, has assured in an interview for Sky News that after Prigozhin’s death, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s days are “numbered”.

Contrary to those who suggest that with Prigozhin’s death, Putin managed to eliminate one of his main threats, Ellwood argues that the “removal of dissidents” at this level demonstrates the “lack of trust” that exists between those who make up his inner self. close circle in the Kremlin.

“Prigozhin may be dead, but the damage has been done. He has shown how bad an invasion of Ukraine can be,” said Ellwood, who is now led by Putin out of fear and not out of loyalty. Instead, he believes that Russia’s oligarchs and elites no longer view him as someone they can trust.

“When a Russian leader loses popularity among the elite, Russian history shows that his weaknesses are exploited quickly and mercilessly… I suspect he will be replaced, maybe not anytime soon, but the ball is in the game. I suspect those were Putin times. numbered,” he predicts.

On August 23, two months after leading a failed uprising against the Kremlin, Prigozhin, once a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell with nine others near Tver, a city between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Petersburg.

The attempted mutiny, which Prigozhin and his men staged some 200 kilometers from Moscow, was described as high treason by Putin, who spoke on Thursday for the first time about what happened, considering him a “man of talent” and acknowledging Wagner’s “contributions.” ” members to combat neo-Nazism in Ukraine”.