Wagner’s Empire in Africa Will Live On After Prigozhin
- Kremlin is likely to keep Wagner’s lucrative contracts
- Moscow will want to maintain its influence on continent
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The day before his private plane crashed near Moscow, Yevgeny Prigozhin released a recruitment video for the Wagner Group.
“The Wagner PMC makes Russia even greater on all continents and Africa more free,” he says, dressed in military fatigues, hoisting an assault rifle and standing in a barren landscape he suggests is on the continent. “Justice and happiness for the African people.”