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Private Military Company showed the potential reach of mercenary outfits in taking part in conflicts beyond Russia’s borders but also creating domestic political havoc.
He shored up Russian forces at their most vulnerable and drew Ukraine into a costly fight for Bakhmut, giving Moscow time to build defenses that are slowing Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Wagner Group’s fate is hanging in the balance after its top field commander and chief Yevgeny Prigozhin were both presumably killed in a fiery plane crash. The private military company — a once wide-reaching empire that has helped prop up authoritarian regimes in several African countries and played a significant role in Russia’s invasions of…
Prigozhin led the brutal fight in Bakhmut through the winter and into the spring, relying on unorthodox recruitment of prison inmates to quickly bolster Russia’s badly depleted front-line forces. The battle, one of the bloodiest of the war, sapped Ukraine of trained soldiers before the counteroffensive, while Russia lost personnel it saw as largely expendable.