the arrivals were mostly soldiers from Donetsk and Luhansk, the two territories of Ukraine which came under Russian control in 2014. In the second wave there were a lot of mercenaries from the Wagner group. Now he says, roughly one-third of the pows are jailbirds...
In one case, he reportedly obtained a $200 million kickback from Dassaut Aviation, and in another, a Swiss court convicted him of money laundering.In Libya Muammar Gaddafi draws on a vast, ill-gotten fortune to import mercenaries.Drug cartels challenge governance in Mexico by corrupting police...
all fighting for their own piece of the prize. Lots of vested interests focused on their own aims, no cohesive unit. Many have cheered this on. “Oh, look, I am getting something. I am important.” In their stupidity, egocentricity, they have brought ...
Once one of Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s closest advisors, he had been sidelined after mercenaries under his command seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on June 23, 2023, in the strongest challenge to Putin’s presidency since Russia’s invasion of ...
"It was very prosperous," he said. "It paid for the education of all the children in our family and gave us a good life. We lacked nothing." Wagner mercenaries seized in Ukraine on the lies and threats they faced Then in 2021, Wagner came to his family's small-scale, artisanal...
"That's in the back of his [Putin] mind that a similar deal might be possible for him going forward," says Steele. How has Wagner impacted the war in Ukraine? Military coup The attempted coup by Wagner mercenaries - said to be aimed at Russia's military leaders rather...
The West recognized the Soviet referendum in Ukraine in 1990, but not the one in 2014. Yet the right of peoples to self-determination does apply to the Crimeans. The West argues that many Russian soldiers were present without wearing their uniforms. True, but the results of the two referendu...
(twice) and fought in Syria. His mercenaries have deployed to Libya, the Central African Republic, Sudan and now Ukraine. Mr Putin is a global bully obsessed with his country’sinadequacies. Contrast that with China, which also has ambitions, but has so far been able to get results using ...
Savic warns that “they” – referring to the Democratic Party though never mentioning it directly – will try to steal the elections, just as, he claims, Milošević did in 2000. He also reassures viewers that they will be called “fascists,”“traitors,” and “foreign mercenaries.” ...
To get into the game, Diveroli knew he would have to deal with some of the world’s shadiest operators — the war criminals, soldiers of fortune, crooked diplomats and small-time thugs who keep militaries and mercenaries loaded with arms. The vast aftermarket in arms ha...