LPR leadership clashes with own national security team

2017/11/15 11:31:39

EDITOR’S NOTE: UBO is publishing the following as received from the South Front news service. We have no way to independently confirm any of the assertions made in this information.


Recently interesting events have taken place in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) in eastern Ukraine. Acting LPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deinego said that the republic should return to Ukraine, citing international pressure. Later the statement was refuted by the military and political leadership of the LPR. The situation is developing. SouthFront brings to your notice an interesting analysis of the situation in the LPR made by Tsargrad Analytical Group.

 

SOURCE: tsargrad.tv

 

Prepared by Tsargrad Analytical Group; Published by tsargrad.tv; Translated by J.Hawk exclusively for SouthFront

 

Lugansk People’s Republic became ripe for a pro-Ukraine coup. It would seem yesterday and today saw an attempt at a counter-coup. Nobody knows how it will end.

Tsargrad.tv received information that LPR head Igor Plotnitskiy and his administration chief Irina Teitsman (who has a reputation of being the secret power behind the throne and the nickname Fiona) left the Republic in an unknown direction. A day later they returned, apparently having received guarantees of some kind, because soon additional news that “everything is being stood on its head”, “MVD workers have barricaded themselves” and “blocked access to the building” but “women went sent away just in case”, but overall “MVD is in a state of siege.

 

The earlier reports that LPR Internal Affairs Minister Igor Kornet was arrested were not confirmed.

 

“Fiona” with a magic wand”

 

Observers say that the current events are somehow related to the pro-Ukraine coup being prepared within LPR. This coup was being prepared quietly, gradually, but inexorably. Using nothing less than the apparatus of the head of the Republic that was headed by “Fiona” Teitsman who was pursuing the aim of subordinating LPR to at least some of the Ukrainian oligarchs.

 

“There is growing tension between the national security team and Plotnitskiy’s apparatus, ” Tsargrad was told by a source in Moscow who is usually well informed about the situation on the Donbass and in the Ukraine. “People from the team of the former governor Vladimir Pristyuk’s team are returning to their posts. These offices are being sold by the head of administration, who is trusted by Pristyuk. These people have undergone preparation by Ukrainian and Western intelligence services in Severodonetsk. The national security team is naturally against all that. So Ukrainian intelligence has begun a campaign to discredit ministers, and not only from MVD.”

 

This opinion is consistent with the theory expressed in various media that Teitsman is promoting Pristyuk’s people to key posts in LPR. It was, for example, reported that the Ministry of Communications and Media was to be headed by someone who since March 2015 has worked as the general director of Lugansk regional TV company in Ukraine-occupied LPR territory, specifically in Severodonetsk. In 2005-06 this same person, Andrey Shapovalov, was the advisor and press secretary to the head of  Lugansk regional administration. Need one remind that in wartime ministers of communications and information, the heads of broadcasting organizations are de-facto heads of military organizations?

 

Moreover, there was more than one hint that Irina Teitsman has serious involvement in the Republic’s pharmaceutical industry, where she has had a lengthy collaboration with the former governor Pristyuk. Sources in LPR believe that organizations under her control implemented the distribution of humanitarian aid from Russia.

 

Because of her, there are also indirect suspicions of LPR head Igor Plotnitskiy. There are rumors in Lugansk that his team destroyed 200 tons of humanitarian aid so that it would not compete with goods delivered through “his warehouses”. Naturally, people want to believe this is not so but it’s clear that these suspicions cast a shadow on LPR head’s reputation and therefore on all of LPR.

 

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