Meantime, the Kremlin said Tuesday that it had no information about Russian mercenaries reportedly being killed in Syria. Moscow has never openly acknowledged that private military contractors have operated in Syria alongside its Russian armed forces. Russian law officially bans mercenary service. Yet ...
The sledgehammer is no idle threat. In November, video appeared purporting to show a Wagner mercenary bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer for defecting to Ukraine. When asked to comment, Prigozhin replied, "a dog receives a dog's death". Later that month...
By 2016 Putin’s involvement had shifted the balance in power in Syria, and evidence emerged that Russia was conducting a wide-ranging hybrid warfare campaign intended to undermine the power and legitimacy of Western democracies. Many of the attacks blurred the line between cyberwarfare and cybercri...
3Russians often refer to the Wagner mercenary group (named for composer Richard Wagner) as the “musicians.” 4“People’s Militia of Luhansk People’s Republic.” 5“People’s Militia of Donetsk People’s Republic.” 6Mayor of Kyiv and former professional heavyweight boxer. ...
Graves of Russian Wagner mercenary group fighters are seen in a cemetery near the village of Bakinska...Show more Stringer/Reuters "The whole system is rooted in that," he said. "In the best outcome, they will badly beat someone up," Medvedev said. "In the worst outcome, they'll...
(2018). Russian Journalist Who Covered Wagner Group Mercenary Deaths in Syria Dies After Falling from Balcony. Business Insider [online], 15 Apr 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/maxim-borodin-death-balcony-fall-russian-journalist-covered- wagner-group-2018-4 [Accessed 1 Aug 2018]....
3Russians often refer to the Wagner mercenary group (named for composer Richard Wagner) as the “musicians.” 4“People’s Militia of Luhansk People’s Republic.” 5“People’s Militia of Donetsk People’s Republic.” 6Mayor of Kyiv and former professional heavyweight boxer. ...
Sky News looks at the Wagner Group and why its contractors are believed to be in Ukraine. What is the Wagner Group? More on Russia Related Topics: Russia Ukraine The Wagner Group is a Russian mercenary organisation. Sorcha MacLeod, who heads the UN's working group on the use of mercen...
through how his restaurants in many ways became the cradle of what would become the Putin elite, to why he may originally have not wanted to set up the Wagner mercenary army in the first place (but for an adhocrat, you can’t ultimately say no, when the boss makes a ‘request’…)...
The head of a Russian mercenary group who launched a rebellion against Moscow’s military leadership in June is presumed dead after a mysterious plane crash.