The late Wagner Group chief reportedly used imagery from China-owned satellites to assist his failed mutiny and march on Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of the Wagner Group, used satellites owned by a Chinese technology firm and their imagery to assist in his aborted mutiny in June, news agency Agence France-Presse reported on Thursday.A document obtained by AFP shows a $30 million contract between the company Beijing Yunze Technology Co Ltd and Nika-Frut, a company then part of Prigozhin's commercial empire, was signed on November 15, 2022, months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The head of the Russian National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, said at the time that Moscow concentrated all forces on the defense of the city 'otherwise they would have passed through us like a knife through butter.'Beijing and Moscow have maintained diplomatic, political and economic ties throughout Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Weeks before the war began, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping famously announced a 'friendship with no limits.
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