I think the speculation was that Prigozhin cut a deal through Lukashenko that the old hat guys from Wagner would get deployed out of Ukraine where they had been taking heavy causalities back to easier work overseas. The newer recruits to Wagner from the Donbass would go into the Russian army. Though how much of that held up after “his pilot died of vaccine induced myocarditis”, I don’t know.
They probably integrated the bulk of their forces in Ukraine, but the mercenary force is a very useful tool, so they just reined it tightly to their ministry of defense.
wagner is still around? i thought they killed tony pringles and were going to integrate the remaining rent-a-soldiers into the regular army
I think the speculation was that Prigozhin cut a deal through Lukashenko that the old hat guys from Wagner would get deployed out of Ukraine where they had been taking heavy causalities back to easier work overseas. The newer recruits to Wagner from the Donbass would go into the Russian army. Though how much of that held up after “his pilot died of vaccine induced myocarditis”, I don’t know.
They probably integrated the bulk of their forces in Ukraine, but the mercenary force is a very useful tool, so they just reined it tightly to their ministry of defense.