Read More 5 minute read International Wagner operation was indeed postponed on Ukraine president’s behalf, ex-intelligence chief says Vasyl Burba, the former head of the Ukrainian intelligence service who was in charge of the failed sting… byAlya Shandra
Read More 3 minute read International Russian Aggression War in Donbas Bellingcat finds Ukraine’s Wagner sting operation failed due to President’s Office interference In late July 2020, Belarusian state-run media Belta reported on the arrest of 33 private military contractors of… byEuromaidan Press Staff
Read More 7 minute read International Ukrainian president admits special op to detain Wagner mercenaries existed, tells Ukraine was “drawn in” by other countries In what appears to be a sensational confession during an interview with Ukrainian TV, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy… byAlya Shandra
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War International The ‘Wagner Affair’ in Belarus and its implications for Ukraine At the end of last year, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (June 2014–May 2019) announced in an interview… byThe Jamestown Foundation
Read More 9 minute read Featured International Wagner in Belarus: Ukrainian journalists cry treason as high officials suspected of blowing MID special op On 29 July reports came from Belarus that the country’s secret service KGB arrested 33 Russian mercenaries from… byYuri Zoria
Read More 2 minute read International Ukraine Belarus hands over 32 of 33 Russian Wagner mercenaries to Russia Citing the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Russian state media reported on August 14 that 32 of 33 Russian… byRadio Liberty
Read More 2 minute read Hybrid War Russian occupation administrations in Donbas recruit militants for action at Belarusian-Russian border – NGO The Russian occupation administrations in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region are recruiting militants for participating in “actions” outside Ukraine,… byAlya Shandra
Read More 3 minute read International Russia Ukraine Russian Wagner mercenaries arrested in Belarus: ‘little green men’ scenario, fighters in transit, or other? What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a… byEuromaidan Press Staff
Read More 4 minute read War in Donbas Russian active-duty military fought against Ukraine in ranks of private military company: Media report Charged by Russian law enforcers with theft, robbery, extortion, and banditry, members of the so-called Regional NGO United… byRadio Liberty
Read More 5 minute read Russian Aggression Ukrainian NGO collects data on 1,500 Russian “Wagner” mercenaries in Operation Trust remake Read also: PMC Wagner is a unit of Russian military intelligence, mercs’ IDs show – SBU chief The… byYuri Zoria
Read More 3 minute read Russian Aggression PMC Wagner is a unit of Russian military intelligence, mercs’ IDs show – SBU chief “Hybrid logistics” On 25 January, the SBU shared its materials claiming to have evidence that Russia delivers arms… byYuri Zoria
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Hybrid War Putin’s cook Prigozhin linked to attacks on Putin critics, bloggers What is worse? To spread lies or to prevent others from telling the truth? The organization controlled by… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 3 minute read Russian Aggression War in Donbas Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine and Syria decorated with state awards, cyber sleuths reveal Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU… byYuri Zoria
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’ Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 12 minute read Featured More War in Donbas Who is who in Russian-run “Luhansk People’s Republic” The local authorities of ORDLO (“certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts”, the official designation of the occupied… byYuri Zoria
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death squads, Pastukhov says Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Moscow dispatches even more ‘private military companies’ to Syria and Africa Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 11 minute read More War in Donbas New footage shows Russian PMC Wagner involved in crucial 2015 Debaltseve battle in Ukraine PMC Wagner is a Russian private military company that has been recruiting and sending its soldiers, who are mostly… byYuri Zoria
Read More 2 minute read Opinion War in Donbas Three largest Russian militant training facilities identified After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where… byPaul A. Goble