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Five years after the height of debates on banning Huawei from European 5G infrastructure, Spain has quietly handed the Chinese tech giant a contract to store and manage police wiretaps, the legal interceptions of communications ordered by Spanish judges. For €12.3 million, Huawei's OceanStor servers will now store some of the country’s most sensitive law enforcement and intelligence data.

The paper seeks to answer the question of whether Wagner Group served Russian foreign policy aims or not, assessing its impact from a post Prigozhin’s death perspective.

In the immediate aftermath of Wagner’s mutiny in June 2023 and even more so after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death two months later in August, plenty of speculation was offered concerning the fate of the group.