What is the Wagner Group?

In late February 2022, The Times revealed that members of Russian paramilitary Wagner Group had been sent to Ukrainian capital Kyiv with the mission of assassinating president Volodymyr Zelensky. Indeed, Zelensky himself claimed that he was the number one target during a speech on 25th February, just a day after the Russian invasion had begun. The Times said 400 private military contractors from the secretive organisation had arrived in Kyiv in January, flown in from Africa. And just last Sunday, Ukraine’s defense ministry warned that further mercenaries had been sent in to target the country’s political and military leaders.

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