RUSSIAN PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES AS A CATALYST FOR STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY AND DECEPTION
Journal: Toruńskie Studia Międzynarodowe
Year: 2025

Russian private military companies (PMCs) – being in fact neither private nor companies – have become an important instrument of strategic influence for the Kremlin. Apart from their military activity, as manifested especially during the war in Ukraine, such deployments abroad induce strategic ambiguity and deception in line with the national foreign and security policy objectives. The examination of this influence is the main research problem of the study. For this purpose a seven-element analy