Two days after the Wagner Group's stunning, short-lived rebellion inside Russia seemingly ended in a deal that saw the mercenaries' boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, fly to exile in Belarus, more questions than answers remain.
Wagner Group return to their base
Whatever the outcome of the brief standoff between Putin and Prigozhin, however, there is one beneficiary of Russian soldiers shooting at each other: Ukraine. Having recruited prisoners from Russian jails on six-month contracts who were then sent to the most dangerous areas of the front, Wagner often used them in suicidal human-wave style assaults on Ukrainian positions. In an interview with Yahoo News in April, Gen.
Perhaps the biggest question now is whether these men will go quietly into retirement or head for new digs in Minsk where, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, they’ll have to pay for their own upkeep. Either way, they will likely be less of a problem for Kyiv.Prigozhin remains a wildcard, however.
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