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The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner [9] (ЧВК «Вагнер»), [66] is a Russian state-funded [67] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin.
In June 2017, the United States imposed sanctions against Utkin as the head of Wagner Group. [39] In November 2017, RBK reported the appointment of Utkin as the CEO of Concord Management and Consulting , the managing company of the restaurant holding owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin , [ 40 ] who is believed to have been the financier of Wagner Group ...
Tensions between the Wagner Group and MoD reached a critical juncture [37] during the battle of Bakhmut with increasing isolation afterwards. [38] Prigozhin repeatedly voiced his dissatisfaction with the Kremlin's inadequate ammunition supply, threatening to withdraw his forces unless his demands were fulfilled.
A fight is brewing between Congress and President Biden over whether to designate as a terrorist organization the private Russian military company Wagner, which is on the front lines of aggression ...
Wagner Group propaganda patches depicting a sledgehammer assault on the logo of the Forward Observations Group After the 2017 videotaped murder of Hamadi Bouta, a Syrian Army deserter, who was beaten to death with a sledgehammer by members of Wagner Group before his body was beheaded and set on fire, and the murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin, Wagner ...
The Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary group notable in the Russo-Ukrainian War [83] [84] [85] has been accused of Neo-Nazism. [83] [86] [87] The group is believed to have been named after Dmitry Utkin who was the military commander of the unit and had call sign “Wagner”, apparently chosen after Richard Wagner, the favorite composer of Adolf ...
The United States took aim at Russia's Wagner Group and imposed sanctions on Tuesday on companies it accused of engaging in illicit gold dealings to fund the mercenary force. The U.S. Treasury ...
The Wagner Group was founded to support Russian interests in Africa and other parts of the world, allowing the Russian government to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad. [79] [80] The plan was pushed forward by Valery Gerasimov, who took over as Chief of the General Staff in 2012. Prigozhin was chosen to run the company ...