There were whole units of Russian military soldiers who laid down their arms and didn't want to interfere in that fight. Pragoshan is not the only one essentially with a private army in Russia. Ramzan Kader of the leader of Chechnya also has somewhere between 20 and 70,000 troops loyal entirely to him. And Putin has been building up the National Guard under one of his loyalists.

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