Tearline Project – 16th December 2021 Original Report Russian Mining in the Central African Republic re causing significant environmental degradation. These mines are not directly owned by the Russian government, but are instead owned by the Russian mining company Lobaye Invest Sarlu (Lobaye Invest). Lobaye Invest is owned by subsidiaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a prominent…
BBC – December 19th, 2021 Original Article This week the European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organisation accused of committing human rights abuses in the Central African Republic and elsewhere. The EU has said that it will no longer train CAR government soldiers because of their links to Wagner. In…
Former Ukrainian intelligence officers spent seven years compiling a database of Russia’s notorious mercenaries. We found the parents, siblings and widows of those killed in battle New Lines Magazine – Michael Weisse, Holger Roonemaa, Mattias Carlsson, Liliana Botnariuc, Pierre Vaux – December 19th, 2021 Original Article “If you’d have come here to tell me that…
Novaya Gazeta – December 13, 2021 Original article The European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner PMC because of its activities in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Mozambique and Ukraine. The full list of companies and individuals is published in the official journal of the EU. In Libya, restrictions were imposed on Alexander…
Mercenaries were forbidden to take loans and visit Europe: who are these people? Novaya Gazeta – Denis Korotkov – December 13, 2021 Original article The European Union recognized that wagner’s PMC exists, and announced sanctions, which included eight people and three organizations. Of the eight, four were awarded a ceremonial photo with the President of…
The Moscow Times – December 13th, 2021 Original Article European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to slap sanctions on targets linked to the Russian private military company Wagner, accused of acting to destabilize Ukraine and parts of Africa. The group itself, said by Western capitals to work on behalf of the Kremlin in conflict…
December 13th, 2021 The Council today adopted a set of restrictive measures against the Wagner Group, a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity. The measures target the Wagner group itself, and eight individuals and three entities connected to it. The Wagner Group has recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world…
November 17, 2021 Belarus Ukraine Original article On 29 July 2020, Belarusian state media announced that the country’s security services had arrested 33 fighters from the Wagner private military contractor. These men were, according to the report, part of a group of more than 200 fighters present in Belarus to destabilise the country in the…
Investigation on “Looting and Killing Machine” Wagner Group Committing Mass Atrocities Against Civilians in Central Africa CNN in association with The Sentry: June 14, 2021 (New York, Washington DC, and undisclosed locations in Central Africa) Original Report The Sentry released a report on CNN which documented the atrocities committed by the Wagner Group in the…
Mondafrique – October 25, 2021 Original article (French) On October 17, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused the Russian private military company Wagner of “substituting” itself to the authority of the State in the Central African Republic, stressing that “to be able to pay for themselves, they confiscate the fiscal capacity of the State….
