was made by a Telegram channel owned by Prigozhin's paramilitary outfit the Wagner Group.
The group published a copy of an order that states that, effective from June 30, Troshev was terminated as head of its League for the Protection of the Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts. He will be replaced by Russian officer Dmitry Podolsky, the Wagner Group said. Troshev is a retired colonel and was a participant in military conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Chechnya.
A file photo taken at the Kremlin for the Heroes of Fatherland Day, 2016. Included in the photo from left to right: Andrey Bogatov, Andrey Troshev, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Kuznetsov, Dmitry Utkin. The Wagner Group says it has fired Troshev.'s special forces and the group's co-founder; Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, a Russian commander known as"the Butcher of Mariupol," who was removed from his position as Russia's deputy defense minister in April 2023; and Col.
The announcement comes days after Yevgeny Prigozhin led a failed uprising, advancing on Moscow as part of a"march of justice" on June 24. The Wagner Group chief demanded the resignation of Russia's Defense Minister