Head of Wagner PMC in Belarus has been identified

Journalists discovered that the mercenaries of Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), based in Belarus, are now headed by a native of Ukraine Sergey Chubko, who previously fought in Chechnya and Syria, SIA refers to foreign media.

On 19 July, the Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, speaking to mercenaries in a camp near the city of Asipovichy, said that a man named Sergey, known by his alias of Pioneer, would be "chief in the Belarusian grouping."

All Eyes on Wagner claims that this person is the 46-year-old Sergey Vladimirovich Chubko. The project refers to documents obtained by an unnamed source.

Journalists of the Belarusian publication Nasha Niva found out that Chubko was born in a military family in Chernivtsi. His father fought in Afghanistan. After the collapse of the USSR, the Chubko family moved to Russia, to the city of Novorossiysk. In 1994, Sergei Chubko went to serve under a contract in the Russian army. He fought in Chechnya.

In 2002, he terminated the contract and moved to a private security company. In 2003, Sergei Chubko, who did not have a higher education, unexpectedly headed the committee of the city administration in Novorossiysk. In 2005, he moved to the post of deputy head of a rural district administration.

In 2010, Chubko worked as a security guard in several companies, and was also an employee of a private security firm. In 2011, the authorities planned to deprive him of Russian citizenship because he allegedly held his Ukrainian citizenship in secret.

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