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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.
The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, [1] a Russian paramilitary organization [1] also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [1] [2] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, [3] has conducted operations in the Central African Republic since late 2018.
Wagner Group mercenaries in Koundjili, Central African Republic, May 2019. The Wagner Group is a Russian state-funded [1] paramilitary organization, also described as a private military company (PMC) and as a network of mercenaries. [2] [3] Since 2017 it has provided military support, security and protection for several governments in Africa. [4]
Russian private military contractor Wagner is busy boosting its brand as its fighters try to subdue Ukraine, trading secrecy for war propaganda movies. Russia's notorious private army wants you to ...
He added that Wagner “will begin to reboot” and start hiring once Bakhmut is captured, adding he wanted to turn his private military company into an “army with an ideology” that would ...
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has invited Wagner Group mercenaries to his country to train its military.
Despite the legal prohibition of private military companies in Russia, Wagner operated unimpeded with implicit endorsement [15] and funding from the Russian government. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Many analysts have said the government employed Wagner services to allow for plausible deniability and obscure the actual toll in terms of casualties and financial ...
It's often called Russian President Vladimir Putin's "shadow army." Starting in 2014, the private military company Wagner Group has been accused of undermining sovereignty and committing rape ...