A former aide to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary head of the Wagner Group who was killed in a mysterious plane crash last month, is set to take over the training of Russian volunteer troops in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Andrei Troshev, a retired colonel from St. Petersburg, known by the nom de guerre “Sedoi” (“grey-haired’), is a veteran of mercenary wars in Chechnya, Syria and Afghanistan.
He was sanctioned by the European Union for fighting in Syria in 2021.
In June, Prigozhin led a short-lived armed rebellion against the Russian high command after the Kremlin’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, had ordered a “detachment of volunteers” to sign a contract with the army.
Prigozhin called off the rebellion after making a deal with the Kremlin with the help of Belarus.
He faces no criminal charges but is said to have been exiled to Belarus before his plane went down in a fiery crash on a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg in August.
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led a short-lived armed rebellion against Vladimir Putin in June. APFormer Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a fiery plane crash in Russia in August. US military leader Andrei Troshev was appointed by the Kremlin to take over the force’s training Russian volunteers in Ukraine Friday.POOL/AFP via Getty Images
US officials called his death a homicide.
Although Troshev, a decorated Russian soldier, retired from the Russian army in 2012, he joined the Wagner Group as its chief of staff, managing logistics during the Syrian war.
He is on the EU sanctions list for supporting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and for training and commanding the Syrian army.
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