Mr. Putin met with Wagner’s former commander to discuss the war in Ukraine

(Dan Tri) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met with one of the former highest-ranking commanders of the Wagner Group amid Ukraine’s large-scale counterattack campaign.

Andrey Troshev, a senior Wagner commander, attended a reception at the Kremlin, Russia in 2016 (Photo: Reuters).

According to Tass news agency (Russia), President Vladimir Putin discussed plans to establish volunteer units with Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Andrey Troshev, a Russian colonel who has

`At our most recent meeting, we discussed a project to build volunteer military units who can carry out various combat missions, mainly in the area of military operations.

`He himself fought in such a unit for more than a year. Therefore, he knew what it was, how to deploy it, as well as knew in advance the problems that needed to be solved for combat operations to go well.

President Putin also said that he wanted to discuss social support for those participating in the war.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA news agency that Mr. Troshev is working at the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with former senior commander of the Wagner group Andrey Troshev and Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in Moscow on September 28 (Photo: Reuters).

Wagner is a private military company headquartered in St.

After the failed rebellion at the end of June, tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin and thousands of Wagner members agreed to move to Belarus – a Russian ally that shares borders with Ukraine and Poland.

However, recently released satellite images show that Wagner’s tent at the Tsel base, Mogilev region, southeast of the capital Minsk, Belarus, has been dismantled, raising questions about the future of the military.

Speculation about Wagner’s future has increased more and more after boss Prigozhin and other senior Wagner members died in a plane crash on August 23.

In July, there was information that President Putin was said to have proposed that Andrey Troshev be promoted to the position of Wagner commander after this group’s rebellion.

According to European Union (EU) sanctions documents and other well-informed sources, `Grey Hair` appears to be Mr. Andrey Troshev’s nickname.

Supporting channels for Wagner on Telegram repeatedly said that he was one of the highest-ranking commanders of this mercenary group.

According to Russian sources, Mr. Troshev was born in St.

He fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet Union’s decades-long war there, according to Russia’s Fontanka news agency.

Mr. Troshev was one of the people invited to a reception at the Kremlin in December 2016.