Strange that few are talking about the other elephant* on the sidelines in St Petersburg that met with the African delegation (after all Wagner has current dealings with Africa region)
*Yevgeny Prigozhin
I’m glad you brought that up. With the security concerns all over the continent, Wagner gives Putin another free lance card to play. Since before the “mutiny” Putin has been anxious to get Prigozhin off of Russian territory (as legally called for). Sending them to Africa has been in the works for a while.