The Kremlin has introduced a mysterious initiative for armed groups in Russia just weeks after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed coup.
have grown especially apparent in recent months as well. Russian officials know it, too, and outlined a plan in April to bolster the country’s air defense operations.
But Moscow is likely working on a delicate balance of not recreating Wagner Group and forming a powerful “Wagner 2.0” that could rear its head and pose a threat to the regime. Instead, the measure reveals that Moscow is working to fill some security vulnerabilities that allowed Wagner Group to stage the mutiny in the first place.
That is likely why the proposal includes checks on the new formations that could essentially erase them off the map at a moment’s notice. The new formations can be abolished by Putin, at which point they will allegedly be required to turn over their arms in a matter of days.Russian service members move into positions, as part of a counter-terrorist operation declared after an armed mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, in the Moscow region.
The creation of the new militia groups, however, might not be the solution to the problem Moscow is trying to solve. In creating the new militias, it is possible that Putin may be creating a series of armed military groups that may come back to bite him one day, according to Jensen. “The governor will do what all governors do, which is he wants as much autonomy as he can. And that autonomy will be bolstered by the fact that he has the ability to raise a band, a militia,” Jensen told The Daily Beast. “That, to me, is a vociferous tendency in the system as opposed to a unifying tendency in the system.”
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