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What happened to the Wagner Group?

2025/5/9
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Karen Philippa Larsen: 瓦格纳集团在普里戈任死后经历了领导层的变动,其子接管了集团,但新的领导层仍在形成中。尽管如此,瓦格纳集团并未消失,它仍然在乌克兰和非洲发挥作用,但其运作方式已经改变。在乌克兰,瓦格纳集团不再是一个独立的作战单元,而是被整合到俄罗斯国防部的军队中,或在白俄罗斯进行训练。在非洲,瓦格纳集团仍然活跃,但其品牌和前雇佣兵主要在中非共和国和马里活动,并逐渐过渡到所谓的“非洲军团”。这个“非洲军团”为非洲政权提供所谓的“政权生存套餐”,包括军事支持、信息运作和政治咨询,并以此换取自然资源的开采权。这种模式与瓦格纳集团之前的模式类似,为俄罗斯提供了在非洲影响力的途径,同时保持一定的距离和可否认性。至于这些自然资源的收益,一部分可能回流到瓦格纳集团本身,一部分可能流向俄罗斯政府,帮助其应对西方制裁。总的来说,瓦格纳集团仍然是俄罗斯在全球范围内实现其地缘政治目标的重要工具,尽管其运作方式和与俄罗斯政府的关系发生了变化。未来,克里姆林宫可能会继续利用瓦格纳集团的模式,但资源竞争和乌克兰战争的影响可能会对其产生限制。

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The Wagner Group made international headlines at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the mercenary group accused of some of the worst war crimes in Ukraine. But after an attempted coup in 2023 and the sudden death of the group’s figurehead, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a plane crash soon after, they have barely been heard from. Karen Phillippa Larsen, a specialist in Russian mercenaries, examines how they’re still being used by Vladimir Putin, and why.

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