![]() ![]() ![]() Īfter years of denying links to the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Putin, admitted in September 2022 that he "founded" the paramilitary group. Others put the number of recruited prisoners at more than 20,000, with the overall number of PMCs present in Ukraine estimated at 20,000. In December 2022, Pentagon's John Kirby claimed Wagner group has 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts. It has played a significant role in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, where, among other activities, it has been reportedly deployed to assassinate Ukrainian leaders, and has widely recruited prisoners and convicts for frontline combat. It is widely speculated that the Wagner Group is used by the Russian government to allow for plausible deniability in certain conflicts, and to obscure from public the number of casualties and financial costs of Russia's foreign interventions. īecause it operates in support of Russian interests, receives military equipment from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and uses installations of MoD for training, Wagner Group is frequently considered a de facto unit of the MoD or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. The accusations include rapes and robberies of civilians, and torturing accused deserters. Wagner operatives have committed war crimes in areas where they are deployed. Its contractors have reportedly taken part in various conflicts around the world-including the civil wars in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Mali, often fighting on the side of forces aligned with the Russian government. The group came to prominence during the Donbas War in Ukraine, where it helped pro-Russian separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics from 2014 to 2015. While the Wagner Group itself is not ideologically driven, various elements of Wagner have been linked to neo-Nazis and far-right extremists. The group operates beyond the law in Russia, where private military contractors are officially forbidden. It is variously described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, or a de facto private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'Wagner Private Military Company'), is a Russian paramilitary organization. The Wagner Group ( Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), also known as PMC Wagner ( Russian: ЧВК «Вагнер», romanized: ChVK «Vagner» lit. Console modding permission This mod will not be available on Bethesda.Asset use permission in mods/files that earn donation points You must get permission to earn Donation Points for your mods if they use my assets.Asset use permission in mods/files that are being sold You are not allowed to use assets from this file in any mods/files that are being sold, for money, on Steam Workshop or other platforms.Asset use permission You must get permission from me before you are allowed to use any of the assets in this file.Conversion permission You are not allowed to convert this file to work on other games under any circumstances.Modification permission You must get permission from me before you are allowed to modify my files to improve it. ![]() Upload permission You are not allowed to upload this file to other sites under any circumstances.Other user's assets All the assets in this file belong to the author, or are from free-to-use modder's resources. ![]()
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