Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article ‘Russian military showing cracks within. Rise of two private army leaders proves that’ has been published in ‘The Print’ on 05 May 2023.
Extra-legal PMCs are crucial to Russia due to their grey zone status. But Chechen leader Kadyrov and PMC Wagner’s Prigozhin might be aiming bigger, says Dr Rao.