The private military company received renewed attention after chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin claimed the Kremlin ordered an attack on his troops and he started marching towards Moscow.
, the private military company is receiving renewed attention from its past atrocities carried out at the behest of the Kremlin.
WAGNER GROUP FORCES SAID TO BE ADVANCING TOWARDS MOSCOW AFTER CAPTURING RUSSIAN MILITARY FACILITIES: REPORTS Prigozhin appeared to try and take power from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to a close associate and two Western officials. The associate claimed that Prigozhin referred to Shoigu as"our biggest enemy, not the Ukrainians."
Prigozhin began making veiled threats to Russia's military command as his men ran out of munitions needed to maintain their campaign, telling the governor of Russian city Svedlovsk,"During the 1941-45 war … Stalin simply shot people like you" and"I’m sure that the time is not far off when people will reach boiling point and raise you and people like you up on pitchforks."
In a move supported by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the European Union in December moved to sanction the Russia-backed Wagner Group and its associates for serious human rights abuses, including torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings, and destabilizing activities in countries including Libya, Syria, the Central African Republic and Ukraine’s Donbas region.
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