Wagner Group owner Prigozhin uses field camps in Belarus to retrain his mercenaries and then send them to West Africa, according to the Ukrainian government's website.
Three women were apprehended in Donetsk Oblast, while the fourth one is in Russia. Ukraine's SBU says they worked covertly for Russian intelligence, including through a Wagner fighter
The UK has postponed plans to designate the Wagner Group terrorist after an attempted mutiny and Putin's admissions of state financing complicated the legal basis, according to The Times.
The contingent of Wagnerites already constitutes 42% of the Belarusian troops they are purportedly supposed to be training. This means that the mercenaries will in reality be tasked with other military tasks
At the Russia-Africa Economic Forum, Wagner financier Prigozhin covertly engaged with African leaders in an apparent bid to preserve Wagner's roles in Africa
Sergey "Pioner," who Prigozhin says heads Wagner's Belarusian direction, was born into a military family in Ukraine and led Wagner's operations in Syria's Eastern Ghouta