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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.
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]
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.
US spy agencies had learned in mid-June about armed action being planned by Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, said a report.. There were “enough signals to be able to tell the ...
The Wagner mercenary group whose leader led a short and abortive mutiny against Russia’s defense chiefs remains a serious security threat to the West and should be designated a terrorist outfit ...
Now an international group of journalists has tracked down and interviewed 11 families of deceased Wagner operatives, bringing a closer look at who comprises this opaque paramilitary and how they ...
The Wagner Group's death toll in the battle varied in reports by Russian Telegram sources, which said that it was between 20 and 80. According to the pro-Russian news outlet African Initiative, the Wagner Group suffered at least 25 deaths, making the battle their most significant loss in Mali since their deployment in 2021 [ 10 ] and one of the ...
A builder has been jailed for claiming that he had fought for the Wagner Group in Ukraine, while brandishing a knife at a Viking re-enactment event. Piotr Kucharski, 49, from The Glebe, Watford ...