A social media account linked to Russia’s Wagner non-public army firm has posted a recording purportedly of the mercenary group’s chief saying that it will pause recruiting new fighters and would deal with actions in Africa and in Russia’s neighbor, Belarus.

The recording appeared to sign that the unruly mercenary power would proceed to function, albeit on a smaller scale, after staging a short-lived mutiny final month due to a dispute over Moscow’s dealing with of the conflict in Ukraine.

The standing of Wagner has been shrouded in hypothesis ever since Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the group’s pugnacious founder, led the rebellion, an try and topple the Russian protection management.

In a recorded assertion published by a Wagner-linked channel on the Telegram app on Monday, a voice that seemed to be Mr. Prigozhin’s stated that the group’s members have been presently determining “their next tasks.”

He stated that many Wagner fighters have been taking break day following a interval of “very intense work,” and that some had joined Russian legislation enforcement companies.

“As long as we don’t experience a shortage in personnel, we don’t plan to carry out a new recruitment campaign,” the recording stated. “As soon as the motherland would need to create a new additional group that would be able to defend the interests of our country,” it added, “we would begin recruiting.”

The recording adopted a statement posted Sunday on a Telegram channel devoted to Wagner recruitment that stated that its regional facilities in Russia would stop operations “indefinitely.”

Since the aborted mutiny, some Wagner fighters have relocated to Belarus, the place they’ve been seen in movies training service members. Others are believed to nonetheless be active in Africa, serving Mr. Prigozhin’s various enterprise and political pursuits on the continent.

Mr. Prigozhin’s whereabouts and standing even have been the topic of questions. He seems to nonetheless have the flexibility to journey to Russia — final week, unverified images appeared to show him meeting with African leaders in St. Petersburg, Russia, the place President Vladimir V. Putin was internet hosting a summit — however his media empire there has largely been dismantled, and Russian state news media have portrayed him as a reckless thug.

Mr. Prigozhin has toned down his public exercise, releasing solely occasional feedback and quieting his criticism of Russia’s army brass.