Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Swasti Rao’s article Wagner Group is a shadow instrument of Russian policy, product of a ‘deny-endorse’ paradox’ was published in ‘The Print’ on 30 June 2023.
Private military company Wagner has kept operating within the grey zone as a shadow instrument of State policy, giving the Russian Army a perfect alibi to invoke deniability, wrote Dr Rao.