Title: Wagner Chief Aspires to an Ideological Army

The head of the Russian Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an interview published today (Sunday), indicated his ambitions to transform his private military company into "an army with an ideology" for the fight for justice in Russia. He added in a video segment shared via the Telegram app: "After capturing Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), we will start updating our plans... specifically, we will begin recruiting new people from the regions." He further stated: "The Wagner private military group must evolve from being the best private army in the world capable of defending the state into an ideological army. And this ideology is the struggle for justice."