War of Ukraine and Russia, live | Putin instructs former Wagner chief of staff to organize volunteer units

Russian President Vladimir Putin commissioned Andrei Troshev, former chief of staff of the Wagner mercenary company, to organize volunteer units to fight in Ukraine, the Kremlin reported this Friday.. “At the last meeting we talked that you would take care of the creation of volunteer units capable of carrying out combat missions, first of all, of course, in the zone of the special military operation,” Putin told Troshev at a meeting on Thursday. which was also attended by Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. The Russian president highlighted that the former chief of staff of the Wagners fought for more than a year in this type of unit and “knows the issues that must be resolved so that combat work goes in the best and most successful way possible.”. At the meeting, the president stressed that regardless of the status of the people who carry out or carried out combat missions, all of them must have the same social guarantees.