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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 Ukraine since early 2014.
The Wagner mutiny in Russia was an “unprecedented” attack on Vladimir Putin’s authority and exposed “cracks” in domestic support for the war in Ukraine, the UK’s foreign secretary has ...
The source said Wagner boss Dmitry Prigozhin had fewer than 25,000 men at his disposal in total, and that around 5,000 of them were in Rostov-on-Don after the group, led by senior commander Dmitry ...
Yevgeny Prigozhin told his mercenaries will no longer be fighting in Ukraine, a senior Moscow politician said
In Syria, where Wagner forces were part of the Russian military presence in the country's civil war, sources told Reuters that local authorities and Russian military commanders launched a swift crackdown on the Wagner Group to prevent the spread of the rebellion there.
In early July 2017, a video emerged that showed Wagner PMCs bludgeoning a man who was initially believed to be a captured ISIL militant in the Palmyra area. [31]More than two years later, full footage was uploaded to a closed VKontakte group for members of Wagner with new information asserting that the killed person was a Syrian Army soldier who had deserted.
Wagner group chief says ammunition arriving after furious rant. Tuesday 9 May 2023 00:00, ... War shadows Victory Day, Russia's integral holiday. Monday 8 May 2023 12:40, Matt Mathers.