INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This year saw the group recruit convicts from Russian prisons en masse, claim gains on the battlefield, enter a bitter feud with the Defense
year:JanuaryWagner, which had covertly operated in several conflicts worldwide before the invasion of Ukraine, is registered as a
joint-stock company in St
prisoners to fight in Ukraine, with reports emerging that the Defense Ministry has intensified its own recruitment from prisons for the
Defense Ministry to supply its fighters in Ukraine with urgently needed ammunition, the mercenary group says it has been cut off from all
updated the number of its war losses since September 2022.Yevgeny Prigozhin.Prigozhin's Press Service / TelegramMayThe arms delivery saga
nearly destroyed city was at the epicenter of fighting between Russia and Ukraine for months
His fighters take control of Rostov-on-Don and advance north through the Voronezh region.A civilian embraces a PMC Wagner soldier on a tank
with flowers in his muzzle after the end of the mutiny in Rostov-on-Don.FargohBefore the mutiny, Prigozhin was preparing to attend a State
to mediation from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
crowds of locals are seen cheering them on.Russian authorities raid Prigozhin's businesses
Wagner also announces it has suspended the recruitment of new fighters.Despite agreeing to go into exile in Belarus, Prigozhin evidently
2023 in the Tver region.Okras (CC BY-SA 4.0)Prigozhin is quietly buried at St
services purposely keep the funeral a secret, The Moscow Times learns.SeptemberThe Kremlin denies accusations that the investigation into
number of reports that ex-convicts and former Wagner fighters are committing crimes at home after being pardoned in exchange for their
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