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Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin has been increasingly critical of Russian army chief Valery Gerasimov, as well as the defence minister Sergei Shoigu, while his men have been stationed in Ukraine.
While the announcement on Saturday did not explicitly mention Wagner or other paramilitary groups, Russian media outlets have suggested that the new contracts are an effort to bring Prigozhin and his forces under tighter control