Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a former aide to deceased Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as a leader in training Ukrainian volunteers.
The Kremlin announced the appointment of Andrei Troshev, a former aide toPutin told Troshev, in remarks released by the Kremlin, that his job is to"deal with forming volunteer units that could perform various combat tasks, primarily in the zone of the special military operation," a reference to the war in Ukraine.
The appointment of the Prigozhin-aligned mercenary shows Russian military officials are working to integrate the Wagner Group into the invasion effort.A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former PMC Wagner Centre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Russia's civil aviation agency says Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow.
The warlord initiated what observers called the most significant challenge to Putin’s regime — but after marching his 25,000-strong mercenary forces to within 125 miles of Moscow, Prigozhin abruptly ended the operation and ordered his troops to return home before heading into exile in Belarus. The future of the Wagner Group and its relationship with the Russian government have been a source of speculation since Prigozhin's apparent death.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, attends a meeting with Russian Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, center, and chairman of the League for Protecting Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts, Andrei Troshev at the Kremlin in Moscow on Sept. 28, 2023.
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