Lingering.

This is coolbert:

The musicians [Wagner] no longer minus a conductor.

I am not sure if that is good or bad. For the musicians [Wagner mercenaries] and Andrei both.

"New Wagner Chief, Tasked With Sending Fighters Back To Ukraine"

Handpicked by Vlad Putin himself! Again, I am not sure if that is good or bad!

From https://www.zerohedge.com | article by TYLER DURDEN | SEP 29, 2023.

"The future fate and leadership of PMC Wagner has become clearer on Friday, following the Aug. 23 death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and much of his senior leadership when their private plane went down outside Moscow while en route to St. Petersburg. It is believed that either a bomb was detonated, or it was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile."

I think we can now justifiably assume that reports of the death of Yevgenyy [Prigozhin] are valid. Regardless that in the future Yevgenyy will be spotted in the Burger King restaurant Irkutsk on numerous occasions!!

"The lingering question since then has centered on who will take command of Wagner, and whether it will remain a private entity, or possibly be broken apart. Those questions appear to have been at least partially answered with Putin's Friday Kremlin meeting with Andrei Troshev, among the most senior ex-commanders of the Wagner mercenary group and former aide to Prigozhin."

From the standpoint of the Russian and Vlad it is important that the Wagner entity remain intact and active. Not only as shock troops in the Ukraine but also in the mercenary world with many overseas adventures in furtherance of Kremlin global goals and ambitions.

According to the wiki entry this Andrei does have a military background by training and experience, in contrast to the late great Yevgenyy.

"Andrey Nikolaevich Troshev . . . is a retired colonel, former agent for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan War, the Second Chechen War, and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war."

As for the rank and file Wagner mercenary, I would expect each and everyone from this moment forward to step easy, as if walking on eggs.

coolbert.