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What is Russia’s Wagner Group and why does Moscow use it?

by Natalia Chekotun and Anna Yakutenko June 26, 2023 8:52 PM 1 min read
Cover image: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images and ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images
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The Wagner Group — a Russian private military company owned by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin — has been at the forefront of Russia’s efforts to capture the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. What is it, and why does Moscow use it?

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