Swear Oath Of Allegiance To Russia – Putin Orders Wagner Troops After Prigozhin’s Death

Vladimir Putin signed a new decree requiring mercenary groups, including the apparently newly-leaderless Wagner Group, to swear oaths of allegiance to the Russian state. 

The presidential executive order was put in place yesterday and requires mercenaries, volunteers and more broadly anyone involved in President Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. 

The order looks to shape “spiritual and moral foundations for defending the Russian Federation, its independence and constitution”, a statement on the Kremlin’s website said,

The wording of the oath includes a line in which those who take it promise to strictly follow the orders of commanders and senior leaders.

This could be viewed as an attempt to bring the volatile Wagner troops, many of whom have been in uproar since it emerged that their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had apparently died in a plane crash, closer to the Kremlin.

Some videos circulating on social media showed Wagner troops promising revenge on President Putin, who has been linked with the reported killing, something the Kremlin rubbished as an “absolute lie”.

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