that's something that's been in the cards for a while there was a decree by the russian defense minister where he said all of the private military companies needed to have contracts with the russian army if they wanted to operate in the future. now yevgeny prigozhin or the wagner private company always said they were not going to do that. and that was also one of the things that escalated the feud between prigozhin and the russian military leadership. but all this is about a lot more than that. the private military company wagner is one thing. but yevgeny prigozhin owns a lot more than that. he has media holdings, like for instance the internet research agency which meddled heavily in the 2016 election. prigozhin was indicted for that. what happens to his media empire? then of course there is all his dealings in the middle east. oil fields in syria, in africa exploiting things like gold and diamonds, also training local forces there. so there are definitely still a lot of questions about whether