The Wagner Group emerged during Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, with oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin as its owner and financier, and elusive ex-military intelligence officer Dmitry Utkin as the field commander. Despite its financial successes, the Wagner Group will soon be no more." Despite its financial successes, the Wagner Group will soon be no more. Africa Corps’s model of operation is simple and, in some ways, similar to that of the Wagner Group. The quiet replacement of the Wagner Group with the Africa Corps is perhaps the most recent symptom of the ground rapidly slipping from beneath the Kremlin’s feet.