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Decree issued days after Wagner chief Prigozhin's presumed death in plane crash

PUTIN ORDERS MERCENARIES TO SWEAR OATH TO RUSSIA

RUSSIAN paramilitary fighters will have to swear an oath to the Russian flag, a presidential decree signed on Friday stipulates, two days after the presumed death of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The measure is aimed at “forming the spiritual and moral foundations for the defence of the Russian Federation” and... applies to members of volunteer formations - a term usually describing mercenary groups - according to the decree.

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