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Chechen boss Ramzan Kadyrov threw his former guerrillas into the Ukrainian fray, but never formed a militia comparable to Wagner. Now he tries with groups that were immediately nicknamed TikTok because they are only seen on the popular social network and not on the field.
Wagner has not fought in Ukraine for months, but he was and still is an essential element for Russia in the Middle East and especially in Africa. And this legacy, which Yevgeny Prigozhin tried to save with his last trips before his death, is at the center of a dispute. Who will take control of the mercenary company, even if it will officially be under the directives of the Ministry of Defense? And what role will other private formations that have been established for some time and those that are emerging at the last moment play to have a piece of the cake?
We know that in a meeting with the former chef himself and Wagner's commanders held on June 29, Putin said that the mercenaries would continue their activity under a new/old leader, Andrey Troshev, hero of Russia, former army colonel. Troshev is Wagner's chief of staff, that is, the person who directed the operations under the leadership of military director Utkin, founder of the same militia and under Prigozhin. Of the three he is the only survivor, and even if some commanders consider him a near-traitor, he seems to have no rivals, thanks to Putin's blessing. Prigozhin did not accept the appointment of the president at that meeting and this may be one of the reasons for his death.
Wagner had and partly still has significant operations in Syria, Libya and several African states, including the Central African Republic. The gold bars found in the St. Petersburg headquarters after the failed June uprising came from there. The bundles of dollars came from paying leaders to whom Prigozhin provided services and weapons, such as Benghazi commander-in-chief Khalifa Haftar. For some time there have been other private militias that have tried to imitate Wagner after the start of the Special Operation in Ukraine. And now they are coming forward, partly under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence, which has gotten rid of the pesky rival.
Meanwhile, we have Redut, funded by Putin's friend and ex-KGB Gennady Timchenko, who has become a very wealthy businessman. Then Convoy (from the name of the tsarist special guard) created by Sergey Aksyonov, the governor of Crimea appointed by Putin. They are hiring Wagner people and are advertising on Vkontakte (Russian Facebook) to engage ex-military, athletes and security personnel promising a lucrative future abroad.
Like Redut, which was created to protect Timchenko's plants in Syria, other semi-private formations operate under the control of the military: Fakel, Potok and Plamya, financed by Gazprom. So Sokol and Sokol 2 financed by the king of aluminum Deripaska. And the Patriot group of former spetsnaz, special forces. Some of these companies fought, while others never saw the front. But now it is Africa that is in everyone's eyes, even those who have not been in the game until now.
Chechen boss Ramzan Kadyrov threw his former guerrillas into the Ukrainian fray, but never formed a militia comparable to Wagner. Now he tries with groups that were immediately nicknamed TikTok because they are only seen on the popular social network and not on the field.
There is even a company of ultras of various football teams fighting in Bakhmut, part of the army, which wants to become independent under the leadership of a certain Stanislav Orlov, leader of the Cska hooligans, the former Red Army team./ Corriere della Greenhouses
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