Originally Posted by Daveinjax
To add to why Wagner will be withdrawn it has to do with Russian law. The Russian army conscripts cannot be deployed beyond the Russian border without a declaration of war. Using Wagner to fight proxy wars around the world gets by the problem of using Russian conscripts. Putin is a legalistic technocrat. He could use Russian professional regular army but the units are mixed with conscripts. It would be difficult to create pure professional units.

I suspect there's more too it than that. Wagner learned a lot in Bakhmut. When properly supported by regular Russian artillery and other heavy units they're very effective. I suspect we'll see them again once Ukraine's spring offensive begins in earnest, either attempting to blunt the offensive or conduct a spoiling attack elsewhere to draw off Ukrainian reserves to other areas.


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