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How Russia’s Wagner group took over the Central African Republic

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Wagner's Influence on the President

Vitely Peritalev is a veteran of Russian campaigns in Syria and the Ukraine. His offices are actually in the presidency right next door to the president. He advises President Twidero on all sorts of issues. So his influence is such that ambassadors, foreign ambassadors, should I say in CAR, refer to him as the president. This is a multilayer operation. This is counterinsurgency. This is information. It's a military influence business operation.

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