Today, Wagner made the first announcement after her brief mutiny and Moscow’s agreement with Prigozhin to withdraw.

The headquarters of the paramilitary organization in Russia, which has its headquarters in St. Petersburg, announced that will continue to operate “normally”“despite the events that took place”.

Earlier today, sources within Wagner said the group continues to recruit mercenaries in various regions.

“Recruitment continues”an official in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk told the official TASS news agency.

However, the chairman of the State Duma (lower house) Committee on Legislation and State Building, Pavel Krasheninnikov, announced this morning that those convicted by Russian courts will no longer be able to be recruited by “private military organizations” such as Wagner.

In front of the mercenary’s building in Novosibirsk, posters advertising Wagner were up again on Monday, according to TASS, after being removed on Saturday.

“We work by appointment all day,” an employee from the city of Tyumen, 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow, told TASS.

The fate of the organization is uncertain

The outline of the agreement reached on Saturday night between Yevgeny Prigozhin and Moscow to resolve the unprecedented crisis caused by the armed uprising in Wagner remains unclear at this stage.

Also: the fate of the organization itself, whether it will be disbanded, integrated into the military or continue to exist as is, remains uncertain.

The Kremlin assures that none of the Wagner fighters who followed Prigozhin in his mutiny will face criminal charges, but no one knows what will actually happen to the organization. The Kremlin has given assurances that Prigozhin will go to Belarus, but he has not appeared in public since the end of the coup.

Wagner had recruited many fighters from Russian prisons, with government approval, to send to the front in Ukraine, but for several months the Kremlin had theoretically banned such a practice.

Before, these organizations “could recruit convicted criminals and sign contracts with them. Now a different procedure has been adopted, according to which contracts are concluded only with the Ministry of Defense,” Kraseninikov told reporters, as reported by the Interfax agency.