That is the story told in "Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos" by Candace Rondeaux, who joins me here. Candace Rondeaux, thanks very much.

“When I entered the basement, there were children there. I was given the command to not let anyone out, not a single one. I followed the order, I did not let anyone out. I put everybody down, my group ...

Going public as Wagner leader A once shadowy private military contractor (PMC), little was known about the Wagner Group's formation and Prigozhin's role was kept a closely guarded secret.

(MENAFN- UkrinForm) In the central part of Mali, militants of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization attacked a convoy of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC. As noted, the attack allegedly took ...

No Russian private military company can compete with the Wagner PMC when the latter was in its prime. Source: Andrii Yusov, spokesperson for Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), in an interview ...

But Wagner PMC also looks beyond the confines of Slavic neo-paganism to incorporate Scandinavian and Germanic gods. The Scandinavian god Wotan - also known as Odin - is often invoked.

A Russian plane allegedly linked to Wagner PMC crashed and exploded in Africa this week, RadarOnline.com has learned. In a shocking incident to come one month after the suspicious death of Wagner ...

The Wagner Group’s leader did not go after Mr Putin personaly in his tirade, instead alleging that for more than a year — and after more than 350,000 casualties, a large portion of which ...

PMC Wagner Group has received over RUB 858 billion ($9.755 billion) in Russian budget funds May 2022 through May 2023 within the signed contracts, Russian propagandist and Vesti Nedeli TV program ...

At least 21,000 Wagner mercenaries have been killed fighting in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader said the private military company had suffered “enormous ...

We've seen Wagner get involved as sort of a direct force multiplier for Russian or Russian allies forces in places like Ukraine, Syria, in Libya with Khalifa Haftar, but we've also seen them act more ...