After death of Russia’s Wagner chief, what happens to his mercenary army?

“Parts may be folded in under the Ministry of Defense, Russian intelligence, or to other oligarchs and leaders found more compliant, but none of those assets will wither at the vine,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a Russia intelligence expert at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security. She added that Russia’s use of private military contractors is likely to continue.

“My sense is that the private military contractor model isn’t going to go away,” she said. “We’ll just see a fragmentation of the space.”

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