After the Wagner mutiny, Russia worked on a license to organize private soldiers: Report | World news
The Russian parliament is said to be working on a bill to regulate the activities of private military companies, two days after the Kremlin survived a coup attempt by Wagner’s mercenary group which it called the coup. a few kilometers to Moscow.
The state news agency Sputnik reported that the country’s Duma (Lower House of Parliament) is working on a bill on the same. The knee-jerk reaction was in response to the defeat by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s army which had conquered two cities before stopping its progress.
Prigozhin accused the Russian security service of carrying out attacks on the group. The events prompted Putin to address the nation, who vowed to destroy the rebellion which is “a corner in Russia’s back.” The rebellion was later halted after a late-night truce brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
‘Fued between Wagner, security company’
Prigozhin held defense minister Sergei Shoigu and army general Valery Gerasimov responsible for the deaths of Wagner fighters. Their feud dates back several years, erupting over the company’s attempt to get private military contractors to sign a contract before July 1. Wagner’s boss said Friday that he was ready to find an agreement on a contract but ‘they has deceived us. ‘. He blamed the company for “launching rockets at Wagner’s back camps” in which “several of his colleagues were killed.”
Prigozhin canceled the attack to “avoid bloodshed in Russia” and agreed to go into exile with all the charges against him. The world has not heard from the Wagner leader since, who has been “unfortunately silent.”
