DEEP DIVE — Greater than a yr after the dying of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious chief of the shadowy Russian mercenary outfit often known as the Wagner Group, the group itself lives on. It’s been rebranded and reorganized, however the group is again in motion.
Wagner 2.0 now features underneath the title “Expeditionary Corps,” typically used interchangeably with “Volunteer Corps” and – in its Africa operations – “Africa Corps.” And no matter title it makes use of, the group now not operates with an impartial hand; it’s now underneath the direct management of the Kremlin’s navy intelligence wing, the GRU.
