Friday’s meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former chief of staff of the Wagner mercenary groupAndrey Troshev British intelligence services are informed that the President intends to continue employing members of this group due to their extensive experience despite the mutiny carried out by its late leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in June.
The UK refers to the photos published last Friday, September 29, of the meeting between Putin and Troshev, in which the president entrusted Troshev with the formation of “new volunteer units.”
According to information studied by London, Petrushev ended up siding with the Russian army Last summer by encouraging Wagner’s mercenaries to sign contracts to consolidate their relationship with Russian forces, against Prigozhin’s orders. The UK estimates that “many Wagner veterans may regard Trochev as a traitor.”
The Wagner leader flatly refused to allow his forces to be finished under direct orders from the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, whom he considered incompetent. Experts realize that this friction was one of the main reasons for the short-lived June uprising.
British Military Intelligence, in its assessment published on Saturday, understood the meeting to be published as… “Presidential endorsement” of Troshev’s work He notes that “Russia will continue to employ volunteer units and private military companies while continuing to plan for Wagner’s future.”
British military intelligence concludes that it sees Putin as willing to “employ the expertise of veterans who prove useful to the Russian state,” specifically in the global South and Africa in particular, “although perhaps under stricter supervision from the Kremlin.”
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