Name: What's Next For Russia After Wagner's Mercenary Revolt
Uploaded: 2023-07-16T06:31:10.000Z
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Uncertainty and confusion over Putin's authority now

front and center following this weekend of

Putin had one of his worst weekends ever.

The future of Wagner Group and its mercenary leader,

Yevgeny Prigozhin, remains murky following

the armed mutiny against the Russian state.

Until recently, Russia denied the existence of

Incentive to not make the footprint of the

But over time, that sort of went out of the window.

The Wagner Group's activity isn't limited to

Mercenaries. And, you know, they sell their

services to people who are willing and able to

So the big countries where they're operating today

But those are kind of smaller deployments.

appeared to be a key motivator of Wagner Group

alcohol and probably other sectors that we

There was certainly other business related things,

such as agreements to liberate oil fields, quote

Once the war in Ukraine reached a new stage with

the full on invasion by Russia in 2022, Vladimir

He tried to outsource a lot of the burden of

Heavy losses led to a drop in recruiting standards.

former Russian military members started to take on

more employees without a military background,

Heavy fighting continued to take its toll, and

Wagner's leader bemoaned the lack of support from

the Russian state on the front lines in Ukraine.

The military increasingly saw the Wagner group of

Questions remain If Wagner started the armed mutiny

as a way to force a contract negotiation with

the Kremlin, or if this was a desperate ploy by

Prigozhin to stay relevant in the world of

implications for Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.

Right. Months of tension between the head of

Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the Russian

A private Russian military organization is accusing

the Russian military of launching strikes on its

He sent an armed convoy towards Moscow that caused

Russian President Vladimir Putin to declare

statement. The mercenary force ended its rebellion

Prigozhin. The details of this deal and the long

And the murky missions Wagner is involved in

across the globe are likely another factor in

this brokered deal. These operations bring in huge

It's in the millions and billions of dollars

The issue is that it's it's very hard to kind of

kind of get an exact idea just because of the

illicit channels that that Wagner is using in

And also the number the sheer number of shell

companies that they use, because not only do they

change their names in the businesses that they're

running, but all of the companies that they then

export out of also have shell names and then they

A camp has been reportedly laid out in Belarus, which

could end up housing Wagner members who are not

absorbed into the Russian military. But what comes

next for the group and its leaders has yet to

nothing new. Governments have hired mercenaries

throughout history to provide security guard

elites and fight in wars during the global war on

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