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Under Russian law, neither the Wagner group nor any other private military company (PMC) can operate on the territory of Russia. After the annexation of the four new republics to the Russian Federation by referendum in the fall of 2022 - [[Donetsk]], [[Lugansk]], [[Zaporozhye]], and [[Kherson]] - the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) ordered that the Wagner group be incorporated into the regular Russian armed forces when the Wagner group's current contract with the Ministry of Defense ran out in June 2023. The new arrangement stipulated that all members become contract soldiers directly to the Ministry of Defense. Faced with losing control over the group, Wagner CEO Evgeny Prigozhin opposed implementing the new rules.
Under Russian law, neither the Wagner group nor any other private military company (PMC) can operate on the territory of Russia. After the annexation of the four new republics to the Russian Federation by referendum in the fall of 2022 - [[Donetsk]], [[Lugansk]], [[Zaporozhye]], and [[Kherson]] - the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) ordered that the Wagner group be incorporated into the regular Russian armed forces when the Wagner group's current contract with the Ministry of Defense ran out in June 2023. The new arrangement stipulated that all members become contract soldiers directly to the Ministry of Defense. Faced with losing control over the group, Wagner CEO Evgeny Prigozhin opposed implementing the new rules.
13 Russian pilots were killed by the mutineers, and Gen. [[Sergey Surovikin]] was relieved of his command of Russian forces in the [[Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine]].
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===Western intelligence===
===Western intelligence===
On April 5, 2023 [[Biden FBI]] director [[Christopher Wray]] told a crowd at [[Texas A&M University]], “There are a lot of Russians, including Russian intelligence service folks, who aren’t too happy. Unhappy Russian intelligence officers is an opportunity for us to recruit some people. We want those unhappy Russians to know we’d love to talk to them, and they could maybe have a role in changing the course of history.”<ref>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/two-months-before-wagner-mutiny-fbi</ref>
On April 5, 2023 [[Biden FBI]] director [[Christopher Wray]] told a crowd at [[Texas A&M University]], “There are a lot of Russians, including Russian intelligence service folks, who aren’t too happy. Unhappy Russian intelligence officers is an opportunity for us to recruit some people. We want those unhappy Russians to know we’d love to talk to them, and they could maybe have a role in changing the course of history.”<ref>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/two-months-before-wagner-mutiny-fbi</ref>