A great documentary from the Wall Street Journal on Russia’s Wagner Group.
It exposes how the Wagner and Prigozhin created a web of front companies to exploit natural resources through extorsion and war across several continents. How they have served Putin in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 to undermine any chance for peace.
WSJ interviews current and former Wagner fighters, government insiders, victims of attacks and war crimes investigators to reveal the inner workings of Wagner through a complex network of front companies to hide the flow of funds that ultimately connect to the Kremlin.
Main contents:
0:00 What is Wagner and who is Yevgeny Prigozhin?
3:36 Why Wagner was created
6:16 Wagner’s origins
10:36 Syria
17:24 Central African Republic
19:59 Looting natural resources in Africa
27:13 Wagner in Ukraine
36:09 Wagner’s future