"Competition" between Russian mercenaries and a vacuum of volunteers across Ukraine

In 12 months, PMC Wagner went from a highly secretive group to a key player in “Russian special operations” in Ukraine. The importance of mercenaries in the war is that Moscow has created a paramilitary group to compete with the men of Putin’s former boss, Prigozhin, who has ambitions to lead the Kremlin. Moscow still supports a third group, whose existence was recently discovered, and on the Ukrainian side, only an organized movement of volunteers is known, many of whom are freedom fighters fighting for Kiev.

Wagner Group’s presence in Ukraine came into view a month after the Russian invasion, and the air bridge between Africa, when these mercenaries have been handing out business cards from Moscow for years, on their way to war at home in Russia. Neighbor. But Yevgeny Prigozhin’s men, a Russian oligarch who grew up in the shadow of Putin’s eucalyptus, with various businesses in the orbit of the state, annexed Crimea into Ukraine in 2014 and carried out the first destabilizing actions in Ukrainian. Terrain.

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“Competition” between Russian mercenaries and a vacuum of volunteers across Ukraine

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