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Wagner Group
Группа Вагнера, ЧВК «Вагнер»
Also known asWagnerites,[2] Wagners,[3] Musicians,[4] Orchestra[3]
LeaderPavel Prigozhin[5][6]
Military leaderAnton Yelizarov[6]
FoundersYevgeny Prigozhin 
Dmitry Utkin 
Ruling bodyCouncil of Commanders[7][8]
Notable leaders
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin 
  • Dmitry Utkin 
  • Cpt. Anton Yelizarov
  • Col. Konstantin Pikalov[9]
  • Col. Andrei Troshev
  • Valery Chekalov 
  • Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev[10]
Dates of operation2014–present[11]
HeadquartersPMC Wagner Center, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Slogan"Blood, Honor, Justice, Homeland, Courage" (Russian: Кровь, Честь, Справедливость, Родина, Отвага)[1]
Size
  • 50,000+ (December 2022)[12]
  • 8,000 (April 2022)[13]
  • 6,000 (December 2017)[14]
  • 1,000 (March 2016)[15]
  • 250 (2014)[16]
Part ofNational Guard of Russia (since 2023)[6]
Allies
Allies
  • Wagner Group Russian Armed Forces
  • Wagner Group Russian separatist forces in Donbas
  • Wagner Group Syrian Armed Forces
  • IRGC
  • Wagner Group FACA
  • Wagner Group Black Russians
  • Wagner Group Libyan National Army
  • Wagner Group Rapid Support Forces
  • Wagner Group FADM
  • Wagner Group FAMa
Opponents
Opponents
  • Wagner Group Armed Forces of Ukraine
  • Wagner Group Tahrir al-Sham
  • Wagner Group Syrian National Army
  • Wagner Group Free Syrian Army
  • Wagner Group Syrian Democratic Forces
  • Islamic State Islamic State
  • Wagner Group Al-Nusra Front (2014–2017)
  • Wagner Group Coalition of Patriots for Change
  • Wagner Group Libyan Army
  • Wagner Group Ansar al-Sunna
  • Wagner Group Nusrat al-Islam
  • Wagner Group Russian Armed Forces (briefly in 2023)
Battles and wars
Battles and wars

Crimean Crisis[17][18]

  • War in Donbas (2014–2022)
    • 2014 Il-76 shootdown[19]
    • Battle of Debaltseve[20][21]
  • Syrian civil war
    • 2015–16 Latakia offensive[22]
    • Northern Aleppo offensive[23]
    • Palmyra offensive (March 2016)[21]
    • Palmyra offensive (2017)[24]
    • Central Syria campaign
    • Hama offensive[25]
    • Deir ez-Zor offensive[26][27]
    • Northwestern Syria campaign[28]
    • Battle of Khasham[29][30]
    • Rif Dimashq offensive[31]
    • Operation Dawn of Idlib[32]

South Sudanese Civil War (military training and security)[33]

  • CAR Civil War[34][35][36]
    • Bongboto massacre[37]
    • Aïgbado massacre
    • March 2022 attacks
  • Second Libyan Civil War[38][39][40]
    • Western Libya campaign[41]

Sudanese Revolution[42]
Venezuelan presidential crisis (military training and security)[43][44]
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado[45]

  • Mali War[46][47]
    • Moura Massacre[48]
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Battle of Donbas (2022)
    • Battle of Popasna[49][50]
    • Sievierodonetsk[51][52]-Lysychansk[53]
    • Bakhmut-Soledar
    • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive[54][55]
  • Wagner Group rebellion
Designated as a terrorist group by
  • Wagner Group Estonia[56]
  • Wagner Group France[57]
  • Wagner Group Lithuania[58][59]
  • Wagner Group Ukraine[60]
  • Wagner Group United Kingdom[61]
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe OSCE Parliamentary Assembly[62]
Alternative logos
Websitewagnercentr.ru

The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, tr. Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner[9] (Russian: ЧВК «Вагнер», tr. ChVK «Vagner»[63]) is a Russian state-funded[64] private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.[9][65] The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces.[66] Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.[66][67]

The group emerged during the Donbas War in Ukraine, where it helped pro-Russian forces from 2014 to 2015.[9] Wagner played a significant role in the subsequent full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine,[68] for which it recruited Russian prison inmates for frontline combat.[69][70] By the end of 2022, its strength in Ukraine had grown from 1,000 to between 20,000 and 50,000.[71][72][73] It was reportedly Russia's main assault force in the Battle of Bakhmut. Wagner has also supported regimes friendly with Putin's Russia, including in the civil wars in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, and Mali.[9] In Africa, it has offered regimes security in exchange for the transfer of diamond and gold mining contracts to Russian companies.[74] Wagner operatives have been accused of war crimes including murder, torture, rape and robbery of civilians,[9][75][76][77] as well as torturing and killing accused deserters.[78][79]

Prigozhin admitted being the leader of Wagner in September 2022.[80][81] He began openly criticizing the Russian Defense Ministry for mishandling the war against Ukraine, eventually saying their reasons for the invasion were lies.[82] On 23 June 2023, he led the Wagner Group in an armed rebellion after accusing the Defense Ministry of shelling Wagner soldiers. Wagner units seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, while a Wagner convoy headed towards Moscow. The mutiny was halted the next day when an agreement was reached: Wagner mutineers would not be prosecuted if they chose to either sign contracts with the Defense Ministry or withdraw to Belarus.[83]

On 23 August 2023, Prigozhin and Wagner commanders Dmitry Utkin and Valery Chekalov died in a plane crash in Russia, leaving Wagner's leadership structure unclear.[84] Western intelligence reported that it was likely caused by an explosion on board, and it is widely suspected that the Russian state was involved.[85]

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