“We know as much as Russia has shown us. The plane crashed. Did he fall because an accident occurred or did he fall because he was knocked over? If they shot him, then who? Perhaps Prigozhin was not on the plane at all. One conclusion can be drawn. The crisis in Russia’s power structures not only exists, but is deepening, Romuald Szeremietiew, former minister of national defense, said in an interview with the wPolityce.pl portal. He also predicts the end of the war later this year. “That’s what my intuition says,” he adds.
wPolityce.pl: Did you believe the information about the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin?
Romuald Sheremetev: I don’t know if he’s still alive. You can humorously say that they killed him and he escaped. That’s the problem, it’s very hard to say. We know as much as Russia has shown us. The plane crashed. Did he fall because an accident occurred or did he fall because he was knocked over? If they shot him, then who? One conclusion can be drawn. The crisis in the Russian power structures not only exists, but is also deepening.
Did Vladimir Putin’s people do this?
unknown. You can speculate about things. And that there was no Prigozhin on board the plane. Or that someone wants to attack Putin by killing both Prigozhin and his associate. In this way he wants to activate the orphan fighters, the Wagnerians, to kill Putin. You have to watch it with a good portion of popcorn, although I personally don’t like that very much.
We have information about a death that cannot be believed 100 percent?
Nothing is certain, and certainly not what the Russians are officially announcing. As the Tsar’s foreign minister had already said, don’t believe the news unless it is denied. No one here has denied anything yet.
How do we look more broadly in the context of our security? How long will the war last beyond our eastern border?
I hope that the Ukrainians will break through the Russian front and the war will end this year. I’m still waiting for it. My intuition says it will be. There are also many indications that this will not be the case. Usually, if a particular case is judged to be impossible, it happens.
Do you have good intuition?
I remember all the moods and analyzes from the communist era. I was in prison at the time. Colleagues were convinced that solidarity was broken and the competition was over. I said it’s not over yet. And the break was successful. My intuition told me right. That doesn’t mean it was easy for me. No one is hated more than the one who is right.
Polish publicists and politicians saw a threat from Russia. The West has not done that for a long time, even though the first acts of aggression from Russia against Georgia were already observed in 2007. The West spoke of an internal conflict. Why?
The West didn’t want to know, and that’s even worse. If he didn’t know, didn’t have the information, it could still be explained. The West didn’t want to know. The West has always turned a blind eye. From the Rhine via Paris to the Pyrenees, no one was interested in what was happening in the East. It’s too far for the West, it’s none of their business. They thought the East were wild nations looking each other in the eye, and that they could watch it from a distance. They just waited for someone to fix it on the spot. And unfortunately, Russia has been carrying out its sentence for years. And we were skinned.
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Source: wPolityce