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On 13 November, a Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram channel released a video titled "The hammer of revenge" [6] showing Nuzhin's "execution for treachery" using a sledgehammer. Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Wagner Group, claimed responsibility for his killing saying that it was "dog's death for the dog."
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 ...
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 was founded in 2014 by Prigozhin, 61, a close confidant of the Russian president who is known as “Putin’s chef” because his catering business routinely won contracts to ...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Chief of the Wagner Group [a Russian private military company, loyal to the government - ed.], has proposed to hand over a sledgehammer with fake blood stains to the ...
Video appears to show Russian convict beaten to death – although head of Wagner seeks to cast doubt on footage in second clip ‘I realised this was not my war’: Russian mercenary who fled ...
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. [41]
Bars of gold, a collection of wigs and a giant sledgehammer: The Kremlin’s apparent effort to discredit Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin reached new heights Wednesday as the Russian ...