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There is no need for a further mobilisation in Russia to replace Wagner fighters who have left the battlefield in Ukraine after a short-lived mutiny, state media said on Monday, quoting a defence official.
“There is no threat at all regarding a drop in the combat potential, both in the mid-term and long-term perspective,” Andrey Kartapolov, head of the state duma’s defence committee, was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency Tass.
At the time of the rebellion, there were no Wagner PMC [private military company] employees at the forefront, they were all in camps. As for replacing them [Wagner] in the reserve, there is something and someone to replace them with.
