More control, less deniability: what next for Russia in Africa after Wagner?

Some observers including Oleksandr Danylyuk, an expert in Russian multidimensional warfare and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based thinktank, argue that the change is merely a reversion to Russia’s original blueprint. “There is no difference … because Prigozhin had never been owner of that operation,” he said of Wagner. “It was always an operation of Russian secret services and Prigozhin was nothing but the manager in this chain of command.”