The Wagner Group: Russia's Blackwater

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From Ukraine to Syria to the Central African Republic, the Wagner Group/Gruppa Vagnera/PMC Wagner is a mercenary outfit waging secret wars on Russia's behalf. A Russian paramilitary organization described as a private military company (or private military contracting agency), whose contractors have reportedly taken part in various conflicts, including operations in the Syrian civil war on the side of the Syrian government as well as, from 2014 until 2015, in the war in Donbas in Ukraine aiding the separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.