After Wagner and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against Moscow last week, observers expected that his withdrawal from the fighting in Ukraine would affect the morale of Russian troops and the weakness of the fronts.

However, the Russian general confirmed that Wagner’s withdrawal from the military campaign in Ukraine would not affect Russia’s combat capabilities, he told the TASS news agency.

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Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov, who chairs the Russian parliament’s defense committee, said today, Monday, that the Russian regular army managed to repel a new attack by Ukraine without Wagner fighters.

“There will be no need for a new wave of mobilization,” Kartapolov assured.

to Belarus

It is noteworthy that the group that he founded about 10 years ago and participated in the battles that took place in the Donbass, eastern Ukraine and Crimea in 2014 includes about 25 thousand fighters, most of whom are mercenaries or convicted of criminal offenses . according to Western intelligence.

While others put the number of its elements at 50,000, other estimates suggest that the number is less.

Its members are also deployed in dozens of African countries, including Mali and the Central African Republic, as well as Sudan and Libya. It is involved in some important exploration interests or sectors in some of these countries, especially diamond trading and gold mining.

After a short uprising, its leader and a number of his fighters went to Belarus at the initiative of its President Alexander Lukashenko, who offered to host them in order to end the crisis.

Contracts with the Ministry of Defense

And today, Moscow announced an end to all prosecutions against the group, even as Putin promised last Saturday, hours after the military mutiny launched by his former ally Prigozhin, to punish those he called “traitors” with the harshest punishments.

However, he later returned and softened his rhetoric, leaving the fighters of that group that actively participated in the hostilities on former Ukrainian soil the door open to either sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, or work under the command of the army, or leave for Belarus, or return to their homes and families.

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