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Although Moscow said it would disband Wanger, the BBC reports that the mercenary group is still recruiting new members in its offices across Russia. The BBC, using a phone number from Russia, called several recruitment centers and asked about membership. All the centers replied that the recruitment process is taking place as before.
Some offices even pointed out that new members sign contracts with the mercenary group and not with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"We are working, yes. If something had changed, they would have told us. But there is nothing", the recruiter in Krasnodar, in the south of Russia, clearly showed. A man from the Volgograd office said that upon application, the mercenary could be assigned to an area the next day, and added that now Belarus is also a possible destination.
Meanwhile, the critic of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, has declared that the biggest threat to Russia is the regime of President Putin.
From his cell, through social networks, Navalni has commented on the uprising of "Wagner" mercenaries.
"There is no greater threat to Russia than the Putin regime. It was neither the West nor the opposition that shot down the Russian helicopters. It was "Wagner" who brought Russia to the brink of civil war", Navalny said on Twitter. In a second post, he stated that it was Putin himself who created this situation, as he himself pardoned the convicts who wanted to kill the minister of Defense, Sergey Shoigu.
The rebellion organized by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, now in exile in Belarus, caused the biggest political crisis in Russia in decades.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who claims to have been instrumental in negotiations to end the uprising, says he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to kill Prigozhin.
"I thought we could kill him, but you told Putin: we can kill him, it's not a problem. If not the first time, we will succeed the second time. But don't do it, I told him" - said Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus.
Lukashenko also said that he has offered members of "Wagner" who have left Russia an abandoned military base in his country. But he stressed that he would not use mercenaries to monitor nuclear weapons sent by Moscow.
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