Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Wagner sub-group, "Rusich", was founded by self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Alexey Milchakov and is open about its far-right ideology. [ 149 ] [ 411 ] [ 412 ] [ 153 ] Wagner members have also left neo-Nazi graffiti on the battlefield, [ 404 ] [ 358 ] such as swastikas and the SS emblem.
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 ...
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]
A video showing Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s thoughts on death has been shared on a Telegram channel linked to the mercenary group, just hours after its chief and co-founder were feared to ...
The passengers were Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group; [42] Dmitry Utkin, the Wagner Group's co-founder and leader of military operations; [42] Valery Chekalov, head of security and foreign logistics for the Wagner Group; [42] as well as two Wagner veterans and two of Prigozhin's bodyguards.
Visitors pose for a picture outside PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, during the official ...
Memorial to the leadership of the Wagner Group in Moscow, following their death in the plane crash. On 23 August, Prigozhin and nine others including Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin were killed in a plane crash as his private jet traveled from Moscow to Saint Petersburg. [261]
A former Wagner fighter, who was not named, told the committee earlier this year that the Russian defense ministry provides ammunition, equipment and transport to the group. Wagner was founded as ...