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Wagner Group
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The Wagner Group is a private military corporation closely associated with the Russian government. It has been used as a proxy force by Russia in Syria, Libya, Mali, Ukraine, and other countries. The Wagner Group has taken an important role in Russia's occupation of Ukraine, conducting combat operations on the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
At the beginning of the Ukraine war the Wagner Group had about 5,000 seasoned fighters. The company's units in Ukraine numbered as much as 50,000 (Feb 2023) due to massive recruitment of Russian prisoners, foreign fighters, and other Russians.
The Wagner Group revolted against the Russian senior military leadership in late June 2023. The head of the paramilitary organization accused senior defense officials of not prosecuting the Ukraine offensive in an effective manner. Thousands of Wagner Group fighters left Ukraine and occupied the Russian Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov. It then proceeded to convoy along the main route heading towards Moscow. It stopped 120 miles from Moscow. The leader of the Wagner Group went into exile in Belarus.
Papers and Reports about the Wagner Group
August 2023, Will to Fight of Private Military Actors:
Applying cognitie maneuver to Russian private forces, RAND
Corporation, PDF, 90 pages.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA355-1.html
News Articles about the Wagner Group
March 24, 2023, "Wagner PMC Activity in the Central African Republic: A Geospatial Analysis", Grey Dynamics.
January 30, 2023, "Wagner Group Redefined: Threats and Responses", by Raphael Parens, Foreign Policy Research Institute. The author summarizes the paramilitary groups actions in Ukraine as well as in Africa.
January 26, "Actions to Counter Wanger and Degrade Russia's War Efforts in Ukraine", U.S. Department of State Fact Sheet.
October 20, 2022, "Wagner Mercenaries Buttress Russia's Battered Army", Barrons.
April 9, 2022. "What is the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary entity in Ukraine?", The Washington Post.
March 29, 2022. "Wagner Group mercenaries deployed to eastern Ukraine: UK intelligence", Washington Examiner.
"Putin's Hitmen: How Mercenaries Serve the Kremlin at the Expense of Stability", Georgetown Security Studies Review, March 28, 2022.
April 28, 2021. "Russia, the Wagner Group, and the Issue of Attribution", by Jennifer Maddocks, Lieber Institute West Point.
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