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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.
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 ...
The Wagner Group is a private military company under the control of Prigozhin that cut its teeth in deployments to Crimea – illegally annexed by Russia – and Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region ...
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 ...
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA - TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2022, 15:58 Russia continues to replenish its losses in Ukraine by drawing on prisoners; more than half of the Wagner private military company [PMC] consists ...
Wagner existed outside of the legal framework of Russia, and back in 2018, the Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said, "de jure we do not have such legal entities as private military companies". [30] Regardless, in the course of the war with Ukraine, Wagner started to become a recognized entity. [29]
Starting in 2014, the private military company Wagner Group has been accused of undermining sovereignty and committing rape, torture and summary execution. Wagner mercenaries have died fighting ...
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]