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“Business as usual”: Russian Foreign Minister said operations would continue in African nations. Still, experts say the “greatest effects from this event may be felt” in the Middle East and Africa.

Despite the deal struck between Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian president at the weekend, Wagner continues to recruit and some of its fighters are lingering in southern Russia.

Vladimir Putin claims publicly that his government has funded the thuggish organisation which is allegedly responsible for rape, torture and executions around the world.

Two days after the Wagner Group’s stunning, short-lived rebellion inside Russia seemingly ended in a deal that saw the mercenaries’ boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, fly to exile in Belarus, more questions than answers remain.

“Everybody who's anybody in Russia would try to have a private army now”

It marked the biggest challenge to Putin's long rule and Russia's most severe security crisis since he came to power. But it's not clear if it will translate directly onto the battlefield.

What’s more, the events that unfolded during and after Bakhmut’s capture seem to have precipitated the rupture between Prigozhin and Russia’s Defense Ministry.

The Wagner mercenary group's mutiny has weakened President Putin and could affect the course of the war in Ukraine, analysts say.

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