Unconfirmed reports suggest that the mercenary group's deal with the Kremlin has broken down amid funding disputes.
against the West, while the majority of the group's forces head back to Russia or abroad.
Financing, Ramani said, was always going to be a problem given the disappearance of Kremlin funding and the lack of natural resources to support their presence in Belarus. Prigozhin's force has already unsettled NATO, and it does not have the personnel or equipment to launch a major military operation against the alliance or Ukraine.
"The next step is that they would probably be used to strengthen Russia's presence in Africa," Ramani added."Maybe they'll start in Libya, maybe these forces will try to get into Niger," he said, noting Prigozhin's overtures to theVladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during a visit to the Valaam Monastery on Valaam island, in the northern portion of Lake Ladoga close to Saint Petersburg on July 24, 2023.
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