Wagner Group set for major rejuvenation as Prigozhin’s son ‘takes command’ of unit
The Wagner Group is set for a major rejuvenation as Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son Pavel is poised to take command of the mercenary unit.
Pavel, 25, is reportedly negotiating with Moscow on returning Wagner troops to the warfare in Ukraine.
The Institute for the Study of War advised the brand new chief is in talks with the Russian National Guard over the longer term of the group.
Wagner is at the moment embroiled in a quantity of scattered fight elemtns, together with in Belarus, the Central African Republic, Libya and Mali.
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Former chief and founder Yevgeny died in following a aircraft crash in August.
The one-time Vladimir Putin ally had beforehand launched a failed mutiny aimed toward eradicating the highest brass of the Russian army.
The Wagner Group was reportedly left pissed off final week when the Russian President embraced the return of one of Moscow’s former senior commanders.
The Kremlin confirmed the return of Andrei Troshev in overseeing volunteer fighters in Ukraine.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, identified as ‘Putin’s chef, beforehand headed up the mercenary Wagner Group
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Pavel’s involvement within the Wagner Group is reportedly an indication of how the mercenaries are rallying round a “Prigozhin-linked alternative to the Kremlin- and MoD-aligned Troshev, even if that alternative is not an independent entity”.
A Russian supply claimed Pavel is working below the affect of Wagner’s safety service chief Mikhail Vitanin.
Kyiv final week reported that a number of hundred Wagner fighters returned to the ex-Soviet state.
Mercenaries had withdrawn from Ukraine following the seize of Bakhmut in May.
The head of the Wagner group was as soon as thought-about a detailed ally of Putin and had been nicknamed Putin’s ‘chef’Reuters Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesman for Ukrainian troops within the east, mentioned: “We have recorded the presence of a maximum of several hundred fighters of the former Wagner PMC [private military company].”
He added: “They don’t represent any integral, systematic, organised drive.
“As they are saying, sport over. These are pathetic remnants, nothing good awaits them right here.”
Russian army bloggers have additionally reported that some Wagner fighters have been returning to Ukraine in current weeks.
