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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 mercenaries took part in the March 2016 Palmyra offensive. The Wagner Group is a private military company (PMC) with ties to the Russian state under Vladimir Putin [1] [2] that had conducted operations in Syria since late 2015. Their presence in the country had been reported as late as 2021.
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]
"Modern private security companies or private military firms really got their start in the 1990s, so in response to the end of the Cold War, you had demobilization happening on both sides in lots ...
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 ...
In 2014, the Wagner Group entered Ukraine undercover, destabilizing the eastern Donbas region and helping to seize Crimea. ... Now 1,000 mercenaries from the private Russian military company are ...
On 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, staged an uprising against the Russian government.It marked the climax of the Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict, which had begun about six months earlier.
“Even though Wagner gets referred to as a private military company, it really isn’t a completely private military company. It’s really a creature of the Russian military intelligence agency ...