The Russian MOD ordered all PMCs (including Wagner) to become units within the active duty, Russian military. The leader of Wagner told the head off the Russian MOD that he's incompetent (which he is) and refused. The head of the Russian MOD was rather put off by this. Wagner decided to seize several key cities, effectively cutting off the Caucuses, then marched on Moscow demanding the head off the MOD be sacked. The president of Belarus (a close Russian ally) brokered a peace deal between Putin and the head of Wagner.
It sounds like when the U.S. military tried to absorb the Flying Tigers when they entered WWII.
Belarus
I recall recently. Kind of odd him disappearing shortly before all this.
So is the conflict resolved? What's a MOD?
Nominally any members of Wagner who want to leave for Belarus can do so. The rest will integrate into the Russian military. Additionally, there's reason to believe all members of Wagner were given immunity from prosecution for this and anything they did in Ukraine.
Unofficially, there's an argument to be made that this was a ruse to relocate large numbers of Wagner troops from the area of Rostov-on-Don to Belgorod or all the way to Belarus while everyone autistically screeches about a coup.
Russia is capable of pulling off psyops too and all warfare is based on deception. We probably won't know what truly went down until after the war is over.
So the Russian MOD got their way and eventually Prigozhin won't have his PMC for much longer ??. Or if it still remains intact will it still operate how it did - seeing as it relies of the Russian MOD for it's munitions ?
I'm guessing...
MOD = Minister of Defense PMC = Private Military Contractors.
Correct
Guessing Ministry of Defense
Ahh. So is that under the MOSW (Ministry of Silly Walks?)
I don't see where anybody answered, but the Russian MOD is similar to the US DoD.
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