Likewise there is the question (does anyone know?) of whether the local peoples' militias are actually in control on the front line in the people's republics; or whether the Wagner people are giving the orders. I would prefer the latter; not because they are nice people, but because they generally obey orders. Meaning that any provocations would be strategic, rather than random.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}