Oh well, I hanged out a Thai friend back in 2006 when we were hanging out in Bangkok, saw tanks rolled in, while Thai prime minister was in New York for a UN Assembly meeting. That was a real thing, when there was a power vacuum.
There were lot of news about Russian army attacking its own mercenaries and didn’t supply them well. That’s obviously a misinformation in my eye, those prisoners took the fight in Donbas for a chance to get out the jail free, live or die, no choice. If you think a hotdog vendor can run an outfit like that? Now he is done in his role and retired. The outfit would be rolled into a formal structure, not an armed militia anymore.
It’s documented that Wagner held back their professional force and used the convicts as fodder to reveal Ukrainian positions which they could target will artlllery. There’s also vids of their professional force executing convicts that attempted to retreat vs pressing forward into Ukrainian positions.