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MOSCOW - The Kremlin said Friday that Russia could grant legal status to private military groups, in what would be a U-turn prompted by the fallout of the Wagner group's short-lived insurrection last month.
"This issue will be considered," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, describing a move that would give Russian authorities greater direct control over ostensibly private fighters.
Peskov said that Vladimir Putin had made the point in an interview published a day earlier with the Kommersant business newspaper.
Questions around the official status of private mercenary groups "required further consideration", Peskov paraphrased the Russian leader as saying.
The ambiguity of the relationship between groups like Wagner and the Russian state has given the Kremlin plausible deniability when dispatching private fighters to serve state interests abroad.
But the Wagner group's failed uprising has seen Moscow bring the group closer under its control, including by removing all heavy military hardware from the organisation's inventories and striking a deal to exile its leader.
Putin told Kommersant that during a meeting in the Kremlin, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had refused to let his fighters serve under someone else's command.
Three weeks after Prigozhin launched a short-lived rebellion against Russia's top military brass, the future and whereabouts of Wagner members remain uncertain.
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MOSCOW - The Kremlin said Friday that Russia could grant legal status to private military groups, in what would be a U-turn prompted by the fallout of the Wagner group's short-lived insurrection last month.
"This issue will be considered," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, describing a move that would give Russian authorities greater direct control over ostensibly private fighters.
Peskov said that Vladimir Putin had made the point in an interview published a day earlier with the Kommersant business newspaper.
Questions around the official status of private mercenary groups "required further consideration", Peskov paraphrased the Russian leader as saying.
The ambiguity of the relationship between groups like Wagner and the Russian state has given the Kremlin plausible deniability when dispatching private fighters to serve state interests abroad.
But the Wagner group's failed uprising has seen Moscow bring the group closer under its control, including by removing all heavy military hardware from the organisation's inventories and striking a deal to exile its leader.
Putin told Kommersant that during a meeting in the Kremlin, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had refused to let his fighters serve under someone else's command.
Three weeks after Prigozhin launched a short-lived rebellion against Russia's top military brass, the future and whereabouts of Wagner members remain uncertain.
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