Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash on August 23.
Without Prigozhin, Wagner's key operations, finances, and future are unclear, experts told Insider.
It's likely not "a chicken with its head cut off," Miles said because Wagner's local operations "are still in play."
His mercenaries were given the choice to join the ranks of the Russian military, leave for civilian life, or join Prigozhin in Belarus.
A mural depicting mercenaries of Russia's Wagner Group that reads: "Wagner Group - Russian knights."
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