Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The Wagner Group, a Russia-based private military company (PMC), is more than what it seems. It is also, as I testified before the United Kingdom's House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee ...

the first Russian military gains in months. “No units other than Wagner PMC operatives were involved in the storming of Soledar,” he claimed. Wagner’s performance is Prigozhin’s route to ...

A new book delves deep into the rise and fall of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group and its close ties to Vladimir Putin.

Doxsee said Russia's purported ban on private military companies (PMC) like the Wagner Group allows the government a necessary distance from its operations. "They are technically all operating in ...

“We are recruiting fighters from all regions of Russia. “Don’t whack off, go work for PMC Wagner.” Then a phone number appears on the screen, which is said to be associated with Wagner ...

“With no significant achievements on the battlefield, the Russian Armed Forces and ‘Wagner Group’ PMC are increasingly attempting to find someone to blame for the defeats. They shift the ...

"It is difficult to say whether this was a planned destruction of the Wagner PMC, but the fact [is] the Russian military command uses the Wagnerites as living meat," Kovalenko said. "Prigozhin is ...

“PMC Wagner is conducting a reconnaissance operation, making Russia even greater on all continents and Africa more free … We continue to fulfill the tasks we promised to succeed at.

Only last year did Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and former hot dog vendor close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, publicly identify himself as the chief of Wagner, formally called PMC Wagner ...