The Wagner Group mercenary army is being forced to tighten its belt and cut staff as the fallout continues over founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s short-lived rebellion against Russia’s military establishment.
British military officials said Sunday that the Wagner Group appears to be moving toward a “downsizing and reconfiguration process” to save on salary expenses at a time of financial pressure. Moscow moved against some of Mr. Prigozhin’s business interests following the abortive mutiny in June.
The group’s current paymaster is most likely Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, British officials said. He welcomed the mercenary fighters into his country after he brokered a deal between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr. Prigozhin that ended the mutiny. “If the Russian state no longer pays Wagner, the second most plausible paymasters are the Belarusian authorities,” British officials said. “However, the sizable force would be a significant and potentially unwelcome drain on modest Belarusian resources.”
Sources told the Institute for the Study of War that hundreds of vehicles and more than a dozen trailers were recently spotted at a Wagner camp in Tsel, a former military base about 55 miles southeast of Belarus’ capital, Minsk.
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