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British intelligence reveals what Wagner PMC is year after Prigozhin's death

British intelligence reveals what Wagner PMC is year after Prigozhin's death

British intelligence has reported that after the death of the leader of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin a year ago, the group is becoming more fragmented and currently has about 5,000 people - the number has decreased 10 times.

This is stated in the intelligence review of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.

"Today is the first anniversary of the death of several key Wagner Group leaders, including its owner Yevgeny Prigozhin and founder Dmitry "Wagner" Uktin, who were killed in a plane crash almost certainly due to an explosion on board. Since then, the Wagner Group has become increasingly fragmented, with many surviving senior figures leaving the group," the message reads.

It is noted that Andrii "Sedoi" Troshev, the former chief executive of Wagner, joined the Ministry of Defense of russia, probably as part of the Redut Private Military Company (PMC), whose task is to form units of the Volunteer Corps to participate in combat operations in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Oleksandr "Ratibor" Kuznetsov, the former commander of the 1st Assault Detachment of Wagner, joined the volunteer unit of the Chechen Special Forces – Akhmat. Boris "Zombie" Nizhevenok, former commander of Wagner's 3rd Assault Detachment, headed the Vostok-V volunteer unit in May 2024.

"Numerous veteran Wagner personnel have followed these and other former Wagner leaders in transferring from the group. In comparison to its peak personnel count of around 50,000 in 2023, Wagner now highly maintains around 5,000 total personnel across its residual deployments in Belarus and Africa," the intelligence reported.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, in Mali as a result of an ambush by Tuareg rebels, the commander of the Wagner Anton Yelizarov ("Lotus"), who previously led the offensive on Soledar and Bakhmut during the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into Ukraine, was killed.