He wagner group He is once again the center of attention. His boss, the Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, has recently broken out against the Kremlin. In a video released, the businessman has raised the tone to report the lack of ammunition. He has also threatened withdrawal of his men from the city of Bakhmut. What soldiers is he talking about? The Wagner group is – or was, since it is a figure from the beginning of the conflict – made up of some 5,000 Russian and foreign mercenaries that, in addition to the war in Ukrainehave participated in conflicts at a global level in which Russia had strategic interests.
Among them is the war in Donbas, the Internal Conflict in Sudan, the second Central African civil war and the Syrian civil war, among others. “They were investigated for war crimes for cutting off the arms, beheading and burning a Syrian dissident,” he said. Antonio Maestre in an intervention in Al Rojo Vivo. Recently, Wagner’s mercenaries have recognized that they are killing children and minors in Ukraine.
Who is behind the Wagner group
Behind this group is the one known as ‘Putin’s chef’, Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of a restaurant chain whose empire has extended to the real estate, oil and automobile business. Also to war. The founder of this army of mercenaries at the service of Putin headhunters among the murderers of Russian prisons. And it boasts of it, says the professor of International Relations at the Complutense University, Maria Jose Perez del Pozo to the Sixth Column. “Despite the fact that Russian criminal law prohibits the existence of mercenary groups“adds the expert.
The objective of this group in the Russian invasion is divert attention from war crimeswell the private companies They do not answer before an international criminal court. “This allows them to carry out actions that a regular armed force would never undertake and which, in many cases, is a direct violation of International Law,” says the co-director of the Institute for Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action, Jesús Núñez.
Source: Lasexta
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