MOSCOW: The headquarters of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny over the weekend that rattled President Vladimir Putin's rule, said Monday it was working in 'normal mode.'
The statement from the office came as the fate of Wagner was uncertain after the rebellion and as Russia appeared to take a business-as-usual approach. 'Despite events that have taken place, the center continues to work in normal mode in accordance to the law of the Russian Federation,' the office, based in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, said.It said Wagner has 'worked for the future of Russia' and thanked its supporters.
'Prigozhin is known to have led an infamous troll farm in Saint Petersburg. Despite Putin calling the Wagner mutiny 'treason' and warning of civil war, some of the group's offices around Russia were still recruiting fighters, Russian media reported.The TASS state news agency said Wagner recruitment reopened in Siberia's Novosibirsk and Tyumen. 'Recruitment is ongoing,' TASS quoted a Wagner worker in Novosibirsk as saying.
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