The excellent American think tank “the Carnegie Endowment” has published a valuable analysis of the secret Wagner Group. It shows how Russia is taking an increasingly heavy-handed approach to geopolitics and conducts its operations stealthily. The author, urges governments to be transparent and let the public know about the atrocities committed by the Private Military…
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…
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Russian and local authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic shortly after their arrival to make a documentary about the presence of Russian mercenaries. Reporters without Border – August 1, 2018 Original Article Orkhan Dzhemal, a well-known…
Prigozhin is a puzzling figure. Although he started with a professional background in catering in the Russian market, he was able to plunge deep into African affairs, across a large array of industries, plundering all kind of natural resources, muzzling governments and overtaking competitors. The Moscow Times – June 5, 2018 – Original Article His…
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 Ukrainian intelligence SBU revealed information about Wagner’s activities. UNIAN – May 19, 2018 Original Article The SBU special service revealed that it has communications between members of the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group. The conversations expose the presence of the group in Ukraine, several of their crimes, as well as severe losses of…
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…
Illia Ponomarenko – Kyiv Post – October 7, 2017 Original Article Ukraine’s SBU security service has assembled evidence of the involvement of Russian private military company Wagner in hostilities in eastern Ukraine and will give it to prosecutors, the agency’s head, Vasyl Grytsak, claimed during a briefing on Oct. 7. “A net of agents, as…
