Wagner Group
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The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company that was controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vlad
The PMC Wagner Center office in Saint Petersburg
Wagner Group graves among other military graves in the Kurgan cemetery, Sovetsky City District, Kazan
Prigozhin was in a public feud with Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu.
Grave of Wagner Group fighter Khalil Amirov at the Kurgan Cemetery in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, May 2024
Wagner Group rebellion
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On 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, staged an uprising against the Russian government. It marked the climax of the Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict, which h
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…against Ukraine, eventually saying that the Russian government's stated reasons for the invasion were lies. On 23 June 2023, he led the Wagner Group in an armed rebellion against Russia after accusing the Defense Ministry of shelling Wagner soldiers. Wagner units seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, while a Wagner convoy headed…
Yevgeny Prigozhin in Ulyanovsk on 13 June 2023
A graveyard for dead Wagner fighters in Tyumen, Russia. Prigozhin claimed the Ministry of Defence's mismanagement led to tens of thousands of Wagner deaths in Bakhmut.
A crowd in Rostov-on-Don watching a Wagner tank with flowers sticking out of its muzzle
Yunus-bek Yevkurov in 2024