From "The Analyst":

THE RETURN OF THE PRIVATE ARMY

Russia has just permitted yet another private military company for Novotek,the gas supply giant.
A string of other private armies are expected to be authorised as these big resources companies struggle to protect their interests.
Generally speaking most Russian PMC’s are designed for combat operations, standing in for state military forces.
Wagner was of course the largest and best known, causing mayhem across Africa, Venezuela and Afghanistan.
The oil and gas companies however have a different requirement. For them this more about self-security.
Russia has a problem with this already. It requires men that should be mobilised, it doesn’t help defend the oil and gas facilities from air and drone strikes.
Yet there are also serious issues over who controls them and how they might eventually be used. Corporate armies capable of threatening the government - individually or jointly could be a problem all of their own.
The whole concept may have existed for some time - but Ukraine sending streams of drones has been the catalyst for security. And the irony is these armies have no more ability to protect these facilities than the hapless Russian army does. The most likely outcome is that the private armies grow, both as a hedge against Ukrainian attacks, but also to defend their assets in the event of a federal collapse and the need to protect physical assets. In many ways these armies tell you how deeply flawed the Russian political and economic systems is, that it needs to permit corporations to protect themselves with their own armies. You can’t help but think these are eventually going to be more trouble than anyone bargains for. Prighozhin should have been warning enough.