The Russian warlord whose 24-hour mutiny provoked the worst crisis to roil the country in three decades has been packed off to an uncertain exile — along with the foul-mouthed critiques of the Russian military that won him legions of followers, especially within the ranks.
Yet the problems identified by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, did not disappear with him, military analysts say, and are likely to continue to fester, enraging troops and further lowering already sickly morale.
The emergence of several other private military companies like Wagner promises to further complicate matters.
“If Prigozhin is gone, the problems will not go with him,” said Dmitri Kuznets, a military analyst for Meduza, an independent Russian news website.
“They are here to stay, this is a bigger problem than Prigozhin himself.”
Persons:
—, Yevgeny V, Wagner, ”, Dmitri Kuznets, Prigozhin
Organizations:
Meduza
Locations:
Russian, Ukraine