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Photo: A group of White people described as Europeans with small cameras debarked from a Russian military truck in Khartoum and headed toward the demonstration on Dec. 31.pic.twitter.com/uK0FiUMXJ0
Photos of the truck show what appears to be a light-brown, Ural-4320, all-wheel-drive, two-door cab, 6x6 truck in troop transport mode, similar to trucks used by the Russian military, and by Russian private military contractors. #SudanUprisingpic.twitter.com/3qFhncq9UA
Last week, observers photographed a similar truck carrying armed forces through Khartoum: White men in green camouflage uniforms. Witnesses said that they spoke Russian. #SudanUprising (17)
Photo: Russian-manufactured military-style truck photographed near an Aman Petroleum station and radio tower in Khartoum on Dec. 26. Observers reported that the armed forces, wearing green camouflage uniforms, spoke Russian. #SudanUprising (18)pic.twitter.com/U1UXTJlogd
Some observers believe these are Russian private military contractors, possibly the Wagner Group, which guards Sudanese gold, uranium, and diamond mines, as well as atomic energy facilities. Russian media have reported that Wagner trains Sudanese armed forces. #SudanUprising (19)
Small Wars Journal (@SmallWars) has reported that the Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor registered in Hong Kong, and also known as ChVK Wagner or Vagner... #SudanUprising (20)
"conducts proxy and hybrid warfare and is used to secure high value infrastructure central to Russian foreign policy." For example, U.S. special forces routed Wagner in Syria, where Wagner attempted to capture and secure oil and gas fields occupied by rebel and ISIS forces. (21)
On November 23, 2017, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir met with Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. #SudanUprising (22)pic.twitter.com/t2VWpUhHvL
Bashir asked Putin to protect Sudan from "aggressive acts of the United States." In return, Bashir promised Putin that Sudan could serve as Russia's "key to Africa." #SudanUprising (23)pic.twitter.com/qAYUdUXra4
Radio Dabanga (@RadioDabanga) reported in March 2018 that about 500 Russian armed forces appeared in the Um Dafug area of South Darfur, which borders on the Central African Republic. #SudanUprising (24)
The Russian forces reportedly camped approximately 15 kilometers south of Um Dafug, with approximately 50 vehicles, and helicopters supplied them. Meanwhile, across the border in CAR, the Wagner Group was defending mining interests. #SudanUprising (25)
Wagner Group forces fly on Russian military aircraft, receive treatment at Russian military hospitals, operate alongside Russian military forces, and are honored with Russian military medals signed by Putin. #SudanUprising (26)
In addition to intelligence gathering, Wagner's capabilities include infantry, heavy artillery, air defense, armored tanks, and training advisory. Is is believed that Russian intelligence officers from the FSB and GRU control Wagner. #SudanUprising (27)
A former Russian military intelligence (GRU) colonel named Dimitry Utkin founded the Wagner Group, which is fronted by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is also known as "Putin's Chef." #SudanUprising (28)
Photo: Wagner founder Dimitry Utkin on the far right with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Wagner commanders, Dec. 2016. #SudanUprising (29)pic.twitter.com/2p6NCA3UxJ
The U.S. Treasury Department has placed three of Prigozhin's other companies on its sanctions list for violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Photo: Yevgeny Prigozhin #SudanUprising (30)pic.twitter.com/h4MY62kFHh
Prigozhin is also involved with Russian troll factories in St. Petersburg that influence public opinion abroad, including in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Hello, @WhiteHouse!) #SudanUprising (31)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted Prigozhin in February 2018 for allegedly funding a St. Petersburg-based troll farm called the “Internet Research Agency.” Mueller also indicted his bookkeeper for her role at the troll farm, which helped elect Trump. #SudanUprising (32)pic.twitter.com/EMsAdMxOQq
So what does the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum (@USEmbassyKRT) have to say about death squads and Russian private military contractors in Sudan during the #SudanUprising? (33)
Check out Russian hacker "Dmitry," who claims anyone can buy a Russian military truck, stuff it full of Russian mercenaries, and drive it through Khartoum. LOL! Hey, @Draguru, how are things at Prigozhin's Internet Research Agency? #SudanUprising #CyberSecuritypic.twitter.com/1487U02P6i
Russian hacker Dmitry has 0 followers. He tweets links to stolen exam answers. He is an expert coder. And the only tweet he has "liked" is from an official Kremlin account in Moscow. LOL! Nice try, Prigozhin! Hire better hackers, Glasvet. #SudanUprising #CyberSecuritypic.twitter.com/Im1URqcPBe
I don't know who they are, but they've been coming to Alwaha Mall regularly to shop for months now. Sometimes things are not what they seem.
What I meant is.. I don't think that there's a conspiracy here. They just happened to be there that day.
Russian private military contractors from the Wagner Group specialize in intelligence gathering. So you think it is a coincidence that 20 physically fit White men who were not reporters arrived in a Russian military truck and walked toward the demonstration holding small cameras?
Yes I believe so. They've been coming wearing like this for several months. Plus, I don't think covert operatives would want to draw to themselves all this attention.. military uniforms, holding phone cameras in broad daylight.
They were dressed as civilians and posing as media observers, covertly filming the demonstration. However, these physically fit, military age White men arrived in a Russian-manufactured, Russian military truck, a Ural-4320. They were not wearing press vests or escorted by NISS.pic.twitter.com/iKiT55Az5t
As I said before, same truck, same people with this same appearing have been coming to Alwaha Mall regularly to shop for some months now.
Yes, the Wagner Group of Russian private military contractors has been in Sudan since at least Match 2018, as I reported here in a Twitter thread:https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1080975034724872194?s=19 …
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