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“Hybrid logistics” On 25 January, the SBU shared its materials claiming to have evidence that Russia delivers arms and personnel of PMC Wagner to Sudan, Libya, and the Central African Republic on planes belonging to the Russian...
Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service) published a list of 206 non-staff servicemen of the GRU (Russian Armed Forces’ Main...
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...
Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not as well, especially in a world where many military tasks are outsourced and where there are some tasks states do not...
Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a reflection of its desire to avoid having regular army units there, its unwillingness to rely on the Wagner group alone, and its...
PMC Wagner is a Russian private military company that has been recruiting and sending its soldiers, who are mostly the Russian nationals, to fight for the Russian political interests abroad. The “Wagner” mercenaries...
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...
Read more on PMC Wagner: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas Ukraine names over 150 mercenaries from “Putin’s private army” fighting in Ukraine and Syria PMC Wagner’s special task force...
Despite the initial silence around these deaths in the Russian media and a significant understatement of losses, the news from Syria is probably beneficial to the Kremlin (this is, perhaps, the reason for Russia’s eventual recognition of...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
