The Moscow Times – December 13th, 2021 Original Article European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to slap sanctions on targets linked to the Russian private military company Wagner, accused of acting to destabilize Ukraine and parts of Africa. The group itself, said by Western capitals to work on behalf of the Kremlin in conflict…
December 13th, 2021 The Council today adopted a set of restrictive measures against the Wagner Group, a Russia-based unincorporated private military entity. The measures target the Wagner group itself, and eight individuals and three entities connected to it. The Wagner Group has recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world…
November 17, 2021 Belarus Ukraine Original article On 29 July 2020, Belarusian state media announced that the country’s security services had arrested 33 fighters from the Wagner private military contractor. These men were, according to the report, part of a group of more than 200 fighters present in Belarus to destabilise the country in the…
Investigation on “Looting and Killing Machine” Wagner Group Committing Mass Atrocities Against Civilians in Central Africa CNN in association with The Sentry: June 14, 2021 (New York, Washington DC, and undisclosed locations in Central Africa) Original Report The Sentry released a report on CNN which documented the atrocities committed by the Wagner Group in the…
Mondafrique – October 25, 2021 Original article (French) On October 17, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused the Russian private military company Wagner of “substituting” itself to the authority of the State in the Central African Republic, stressing that “to be able to pay for themselves, they confiscate the fiscal capacity of the State….
Novaya Gazeta – October 19, 2021 Original article The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation ignores the statement and complaints of Abdullah Elismail, the brother of Syrian Mohammed Elismail, who was killed by alleged militants of the Wagner PMC in 2017. This is stated in the statement of the human rights center “Memorial”* and lawyers…
The death of member of Wagner in Moscow allowed the DFRLab to conduct an investigation on the mercenary’s neo-Nazi affiliation. DFRLab – October 7th 2021 Original article The death of Voskanyan was followed by several indications that he was a member of Rusich. First, the mercenary batallion member Evgeniy Eduardovich Rasskazov, known as « Topaz », was…
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including by external actors, a Human Rights Council-appointed probe said on Monday. United Nations – October 4, 2021 Original Report From arbitrary detention to torture, the recruitment of child soldiers and mass killings, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on…
When the UN report was published, the Central African government considered these accusations to be “mere denunciations”. Le Monde – October 01, 2021 Original article Six months after the release of an UN report accusing Russian mercenaries of abuses in CAR, the government acknowledged part of the facts on Friday through the voice of its…
August 11, 2021 By Ilya Barabanov & Nader IbrahimBBC News Russian & BBC News Arabic Original Article A BBC investigation has revealed the scale of operations by a shadowy Russian mercenary group in Libya’s civil war, which includes links to war crimes and the Russian military. A Samsung tablet left by a fighter for the…
