Russia is using the Wagner Group, its private army, to advance its interests in Libya According to Fathi Bashagha, the Libyan interior minister, Russia is trying to escalate the Libyan crisis to push its interests abroad. By supporting the Haftar government and reviving the networks of the deceased dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Russia is able to…
Ilya Barabanov, Svetlana Reuters, Andrey Soshnikov, Andrey Zakharov, Sergey Goryashko – BBC – 31 January 2019 Original article Six months ago, Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko were killed in the Central African Republic. At that moment, there were several dozen Wagner PMC fighters and civilian specialists in the CAR who could…
The Bell – January 29, 2019 Original Article Yevgeny Prigozhin is the private army for the president Putin Yevgeny Prigozhin’s name has become synonymous with Russia’s informal presence in conflict points where there are its interests, from Syria to West Africa and Venezuela. The Bell found out that the risky assignment to take part in…
The Bell – Anastasia Yakoreva – June 4, 2018 Original article As it became known to The Bell, after the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev with Sudanese President Omar Bashir, a company associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin began to search for gold in this country. The fighters of the Wagner PMC also went there….
The true face of Russian mercenaries and the secrets of PMCs: an exclusive interview with Lenta.ru Interviewed by Alexandra Vigrizer – February 21, 2018 Original article To see the world, to visit unusual countries, to meet wonderful people and shoot them, simultaneously earning a lot of money – the work of a mercenary in a…
The Syrian campaign of the mysterious "Wagner PMC": numbers and weapons, key operations and conflict at the top of the Ministry of Defense Novaya Gazeta – Irek Murtazin – October 9, 2017 Original article Twelve units of "cargo 200" – the dead employees of the Wagner PMC – were delivered to Rostov-on-Don. And this is…
RBC – 09 September 2016 PMCs around the world are a huge business: “privateers” often replace the armed forces. In Russia, they are outlawed. But in Syria, a prototype of Russian PMCs was tested – the Wagner Group, and the authorities are again thinking about legalization. Original article The military unit on the Molkino farm…
March 30th, 2016 – The Telegraph Original Article Could russian Wagner Group be registered as far from Moscow as Argentina? The existence of Wagner Group is not a mystery to anynone anymore. But it still remains obscure due to one factor. Private military Companies are illegal in Russia. Mercenaries can therefore not be recognized and…
Recruitment of volunteers who want to risk their heads for Bashar al-Assad is open in Russia. "Fontanka" learned how to get to war, how much the life of a soldier of luck costs and what the famous German mystic anti-Semite has to do with it. Fontanka – 16 October 2015 Original Article The Russian military…
