According to the Financial Times, the Wagner Group does not exist as a single incorporated entity, but instead as a "sprawling network of interacting companies with varying degrees of proximity to [Prigozhin's] Concord group" – such as Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering. Another name for them was " little green men" since they were masked, wearing unmarked green army uniforms and their origin was initially unknown. Wagner gained prominence in 2014, when it was fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. On 5 May 2023, Prigozhin blamed Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Gen.

Mr Touadéra, in power since a 2016 election, had struggled to defeat rebel forces despite the presence of French troops and a UN force. One Ukrainian was killed in Syria while fighting in the ranks of Wagner in March 2016, [113] and three were reported overall to have died that spring. Snaha začlenit wagnerovce bojující na Ukrajině do regulérní armády vedla k jejich předčasně ukončené vzpouře proti Moskvě v červnu 2023. Wagner played a significant role in the subsequent full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, [67] for which it recruited Russian prison inmates for frontline combat. Russian security forces accused the founder of the Wagner group of launching a coup attempt as he pledged a "march of justice" against the Russian army.The organization was said to be registered in Argentina [14] [108] and has offices in Saint Petersburg [109] and Hong Kong. Putin in the past frequently denied any links between Russian state and "Wagner" and insisted it's a "private military company". Sprawców dotychczas nie nazywano po imieniu, nie tylko dlatego, że kryją swoje twarze pod maskami, lecz przede wszystkim dlatego, że Grupa Wagnera próbuje działać samodzielnie bez określonego statusu. Poland’s ruling party chair, Jarosław Kaczyński, said on Friday that Wagner fighters were “not in Belarus for fun”.

Vlastnil síť restaurací a cateringovou firmu Concord Catering, a byl proto mediálně přezdíván Putinův šéfkuchař. Równocześnie w efekcie agresywnej polityki stosowanej przez Kreml najemnicy Grupy Wagnera padali ofiarą dawnej doktryny Związku Radzieckiego i wysyłani są na z góry przegrane misje, które wedle np.W wyniku tych działań to Grupie Wagnera przypisuje się zestrzelenie samolotu z czterdziestoma spadochroniarzami ukraińskimi i dziewięcioma członkami załogi. He was reportedly injured in the Battle of Khasham, where hundreds of Russian mercenaries perished after US airstrikes against pro-Assad forces. By March 2021, Wagner PMCs were reportedly also deployed in Zimbabwe, Angola, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and possibly the Democratic Republic of Congo.