Wagner Group mercenaries have been building monuments to slain founders Evgeniy Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin all over Africa in places that they operated. This is from a public memorial in Bangui, Central African Republic. Not sure if such statues would be allowed in Russia.

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Wow, that's wild! 
So much dedication, it’s honestly quite inspiring. 
Imagine those statues popping up across Africa—amazing!