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Haven't got a source in English, but just read a very sensible explanation for the decision to make Wagner soldiers sign direct contracts with the Russian army.
When Wagner was founded much of the appeal was to have plausible deniability, Russia denied their existence for almost a decade. But with the offensive in 2022 their existence slipped out of the closet and eventually Wagner became a trademarked brand with fancy head quarters and so on. Some in the RA hierarchy no longer saw any point in paying the premium for mercenaries, now that they no longer were of the secret and clandestine kind, so the decision was made to take the out sourced operation in-house so to speak. Prigozhin stood to loose a huge chunk of his business empire and made up a cause on the spot and marched for Moscow. All very pragmatic and not a 4D chess move in sight.