Putin tasks aide of late Wagner chief to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine

Putin tasks aide of late Wagner chief to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin tasks Andrei Troshev, a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine.

The meeting with Troshev underlines the integration of fighters from the mercenary Wagner Group into Russia's regular military in the wake of Prigozhin's aborted mutiny in June.

Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, died with nine other people when a plane flying from Moscow to Saint Petersburg crashed on August 23.