Wagner Group
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The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.
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One year on from Wagner rebellion and Putin's position is as strong as everToday marks the first anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow with his Wagner mercenaries.Sky News - Published | |
Russia expands former Wagner base in MaliNew satellite imagery reveals construction work at a former Wagner Group base at Modibo Keita International Airport in Mali.Sky News - Published | |
British aid worker may have been killed by Wagner Group mercenaries in possible 'war crime' - coronerBritish aid worker Chris Parry, who died in Ukraine, may have been killed by Wagner Group mercenaries in a possible "war crime", an inquest has heard.Sky News - Published | |
Inquest to reveal fate of British men who died in Ukraine - as family say they were 'executed'An inquest will reveal what happened to two British aid workers who died in Ukraine - as the family of one say they were executed, possibly by Wagner Group mercenaries.Sky News - Published | |
Hand grenade fragments found in bodies of victims after Prigozhin plane crash - PutinHand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.Sky News - Published | |
Russia's Wagner Group to be declared a terrorist organisation by the UKRussian mercenary group Wagner will be declared a terrorist organisation, the Home Office has said.Sky News - Published | |
'General Armageddon pictured alive' after weeks of speculation following Wagner mutinyRussian general Sergei Surovikin - not seen since the Wagner Group mutiny - has apparently reappeared.Sky News - Published | |
'Basically I'm fine': New video of Prigozhin emerges from days before his reported deathA new video has emerged of former Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a vehicle addressing the camera, seemingly days before his reported death.Sky News - Published | |
Wagner boss Prigozhin buried privately in St Petersburg cemetery, his press team saysWagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been buried privately in a St Petersburg cemetery, according to his press team.Sky News - Published | |
Wagner likely to mutate and morph, but will once again be compliant to Putin's willA former member of the notorious Russian Wagner group and one-time assistant to Yevgheny Prigozhin has told Sky News he has been told his former boss is indeed dead.Sky News - Published | |
Putin sends condolences to family after Prigozhin 'death' in plane crashVladimir Putin says he has sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin after the Wagner Group leader was presumed killed in a plane crash.Sky News - Published | |
What Prigozhin's 'death' means for the 'disintegrating' Wagner GroupThe Wagner Group will continue to disintegrate in the wake of a plane crash that left its leader presumed dead, experts have warned.Sky News - Published | |
Prigozhin 'dead' - what next for Putin and Ukraine?Russians have been paying tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin after it was reported the Wagner Group leader was among 10 people who died when a private jet crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday.Sky News - Published | The list of Vladimir Putin critics who met untimely deathsIt's thought the Wagner Group's brief uprising against the Russian defence ministry may have sealed Yevgeny Prigozhin's fate.Sky News - Published |
Military analyst Sean Bell on what the footage tells usRussian aviation authorities say Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among ten people killed in a plane crash near Moscow on Wednesday.Sky News - Published | Who was on the private jet that crashed in Russia?Ten bodies have been recovered from the site of a Russian plane crash, state media has said, with a number of high-profile members of the Wagner mercenary group reportedly on board.Sky News - Published |
Wagner boss on 'plane which crashed killing all 10 on board' - but death yet to be confirmedWagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 passengers on board, Russia's Civil Aviation Authority has said.Sky News - Published | Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin 'was on plane' that crashed near MoscowWagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on the plane, along with Yevgeny Prigozhin, that crashed north of Moscow, according to the Russian civil aviation authority.Sky News - Published |
Ten killed in private jet crash north of Moscow - Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on passenger list'Ten people have been killed in a private jet crash north of Moscow - with the Russian Civil Aviation Authority saying Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list.Sky News - Published | Wagner leader fighting to 'free Africa' in new video addressWagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has shared his first video address since his aborted June mutiny.Sky News - Published |
Niger coup backers wave Russian flags as Wagner mercenary boss offers supportThousands of supporters of the military junta that seized control in Niger in a coup have marched through the streets of the capital waving Russian flags and denouncing former colonial power France.Sky News - Published | Is Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin at event with Vladimir Putin in Russia?Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may be at a summit in St Petersburg - where Vladimir Putin is also in attendance, images posted online and in Russian media suggest.Sky News - Published |
UK 'complacent' in countering risk from Wagner mercenary groupThe UK government's sanctions targeting Wagner have been "underwhelming in the extreme" and it should act faster to exploit the mercenary group's current weakness, a new report has found.Sky News - Published | Wagner mercenary boss Prigozhin 'seen welcoming his fighters to Belarus'Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has purportedly appeared in a video welcoming his fighters to Belarus and saying their training will make the Belarusian army the second best in the world.Sky News - Published |
Putin met with Prigozhin five days after mutiny, Kremlin claimsVladimir Putin met with Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin just days after his mutiny, the Kremlin has claimed.Sky News - Published | Wagner troops leave Central African Republic after 'refusing contracts with Russia'High-level officials in Bangui have confirmed the departure of Wagner personnel from the Central African Republic (CAR).Sky News - Published |
Is this where Wagner Group fighters could be based in Belarus?For a base that Wagner Group forces are definitively not at - at least for now - the training facility at Tsel, near Osipovichi in Belarus, is certainly interesting.Sky News - Published | Inside his grand palace, Lukashenko speaks out on Putin, Prigozhin and the Wagner mutinyAlexander Lukashenko repeated his claim today that there were no heroes in the remarkably speedy resolution of Prigozhin's mutiny, thanks at least in part to his own mediation efforts.Sky News - Published |
Wagner boss is in Russia and Putin won't 'wipe' him out - Belarus leaderBelarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia - and Vladimir Putin will not "wipe" him out.Sky News - Published | Wigs, guns and gold bars found in Russian raid of palace abandoned by Wagner bossThe St Petersburg palace of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been raided by Russian security services.Sky News - Published |
