The Wagner group transfers weapons and more than 2,000 pieces of military equipment to the Kremlin

The Wagner group transferred more than 2,000 war equipment and weaponsincluding roadblocks and multiple missile launch systems, to Russia’s Defense Ministry following a failed armed insurrection by Russian mercenaries last June, military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said today.

“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in accordance with the plan, are completing the acceptance of weapons and military equipment from the units of the Wagner Group,” the lieutenant general said in a statement.

He explained that the Defense received more than 2,000 pieces of equipment and weapons, including hundreds of heavy weapons such as T-90, T-80, T-72B3 tanks, Grad and Uragán multi-barrel missile systems, Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile systems, self-propelled artillery 2S1 Carnation, Acacia, Hyacinth, Tulip, howitzers and anti-tank missiles.

Also mortar systems, multipurpose armored vehiclesarmored personnel carriers, as well as other vehicles and about 20,000 pieces of small arms, Konashenkov said.

Likewise, the mercenaries handed over to the regular armed forces more than 2,500 tons of various ammunitionhe added.

The defense spokesman further indicated that among the equipment transferred, dozens of units were never used on the battlefield.

Konashenkov explained that now heavy tracked vehicles, large-capacity self-propelled artillery installations and tanks will be brought to the rear.

“All equipment and weapons are delivered to the rear areas, where the repair and restoration units of the Armed Forces carry out maintenance and preparation for use,” he said.

The process of transferring the weapons that were in the hands of the Wagnerites in Ukraine began on June 27, three days after the mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from the south of Russia and arrived 200 kilometers from Moscow to avoid disappearing as a private in a military company.

An agreement between Prigozhin and the Kremlin, mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, succeeded in stopping the armed rebellion.

According to the agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin He gave the mercenaries three ways out: return home, go to Belarus, or sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense or other security agencies of the country to be subordinate to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

In practice, this meant breaking up, at least in Ukraine, the Wagner Group, as it was known since it was created in 2014 after the outbreak of the conflict in Donbas, in eastern Ukraine.

As part of the agreement, The Kremlin promised the mercenaries and their boss that they would not be prosecuted.

It is currently unknown how many Wagnerians have signed a contract with Defense, while the latest news from Prigozhin and the mercenaries is that they are on vacation until the beginning of August before moving to Belarus to train and advise the Belarusian forces.