There may already be a successor to disgraced mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin: Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin hinted that the top Wagner commander, dubbed “Sedoi”, could take command of the Wagner group. “Nothing would have changed for her. They would have been led by the same person who had been their actual commander all along,” Putin explained
Putin had said he had shown the fighters ways to carry on – under a new commander. According to French and EU documents, insiders and media reports, “Sedoi” – which translates as “gray hair” – is Andrei Troshev, a highly decorated veteran of Russia’s wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. He is from St. Petersburg, the birthplace of Putin, and was photographed a few years ago in the company of the president.
According to the interview, Putin stated that many of the Wagner fighters present nodded in agreement at the proposal. However, Prigozhin did not see this and said that the “guys” would not agree with such a decision. These sentences from the Russian newspaper “Kommersant” are not found in the official Russian government transcript of the interview conducted on Thursday.
Three weeks ago, Prigozhin had led the uprising of his mercenaries. His troops temporarily took control of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, where the army has its headquarters for the war in Ukraine. A few hundred kilometers from Moscow, Prigozhin, who had repeatedly criticized the Russian military leadership, broke off the mutiny. An agreement was reached granting Prigozhin impunity and exile in Belarus.
Private military companies should be legalized
Putin’s spokesman also confirmed that the Kremlin is considering legalizing private military companies and in particular the Wagner mercenary group, whose existence has so far been disallowed under Russian law. “Legally, the private military company Wagner does not and never has existed,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. It’s a “complex” issue that needs to be investigated, Pesvkov said.
Source: Krone
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