ANALYSIS: The 'hired killers' trying to do what Putin's army couldn't
"I think the answer is that they are completely ruthless," says Parmeter. "They operate outside Russian law, so there are virtually no accountability mechanisms unless some of them can be indicted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. That's even more unlikely given that Russia has withdrawn from the court's jurisdiction.
Former Australian Ambassador to Moscow, Peter Tesch, says the Wagner Group clearly has sufficient presidential imprimatur to insert itself into the war. He says the notion Russia had private armies was derided by official Russian sources when word first starting emerging about Wagner's operations in central Africa in recent years.
He says Wagner's importance in Ukraine is hard to assess from a military perspective because of uncertainty about the real numbers involved.
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