Tag: The Wagner Group

Russia, Russians

What It Was Like to Be in Russia and Watch a Failed Coup – Mother Jones

By Monday morning, after the non-coup, Wagner posters were back up in most major cities, and Wagner recruitment centers reopened. Wagner merch could once again be purchased online: the bull’s eye skulls, with their slogans, “Blood. Honor. Motherland. Courage.” “Nothing Personal. We’ve Been Paid.” “Our Business is Death. Business is Booming.” T-shirts and baseball caps, patches, and stickers, they’re popular with the kids.

Source: What It Was Like to Be in Russia and Watch a Failed Coup – Mother Jones

Russia

What is Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries in Ukraine? – BBC News

The Wagner Group offices in St Petersburg

The Wagner Group has tens of thousands of mercenaries in Ukraine, according to UK military intelligence.

What is Wagner Group and who is fighting for it?

What is the Wagner Group doing in Ukraine?

How was the Wagner Group started?

How has Wagner clashed with Russia’s military commanders?

Where else is the Wagner Group operating?

What crimes is the Wagner Group alleged to have committed?

Source: What is Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries in Ukraine? – BBC News

Putin

As Putin’s army loses ground in Ukraine, he’s relying more and more on Wagner Group mercenaries – ABC News

A composite image of Yegveny Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin

The Wagner Group has been called everything from “Putin’s ghost army” to “hired killers”.

But perhaps the most brutal description comes from Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia: “Wagner can be considered the gangster contract killers of Putin’s mafia state.”

The ambassador, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, does not hold back: “Justice awaits Wagner if its members survive the battlefield.”

These days few subjects will elicit as strong a response from Ukrainians as the Wagner Group — Russia’s mercenary group which does things that even the feared Russian special forces, the Spetsnaz, won’t do.

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Source: As Putin’s army loses ground in Ukraine, he’s relying more and more on Wagner Group mercenaries – ABC News