{"id":11010,"date":"2024-07-30T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:30:51","slug":"wagner-group-of-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wagner-group-of-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner Group of mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Wagner Group:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wagner Group, officially called <strong>PMC Wagner<\/strong>, is a <strong>Russian paramilitary organization<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is basically a <strong>private military company<\/strong> and a network of mercenaries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: It <strong>first emerged in 2014<\/strong> during <strong>Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea<\/strong> and has <strong>since operated in Syria<\/strong> and at least a half dozen <strong>African countries, including Libya, Sudan<\/strong>, Mozambique, Mali, and the <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin<\/strong>, a <strong>former special forces officer<\/strong> in Russia&#8217;s GRU military intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Although <strong>mercenary forces<\/strong> are <strong>technically illegal in Russia<\/strong>, <strong>Wagner registered as<\/strong> a <strong>&#8220;private military company&#8221; in 2022.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symbol<\/strong>: It is composed of a solid black roundel with a white image of a <strong>human skull<\/strong> in the scope, symbolizing victory over death.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>operations<\/strong> have been <strong>closely tied to<\/strong> the <strong>Russian military<\/strong> and intelligence community.<\/li>\n<li>Wagner\u2019s services vary based on the needs of its clients, which include rebel groups and regimes, and its funding ranges from direct payment to resource concessions.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>military units of PMC Wagner numbered varied<\/strong> at different times and according to various sources from<strong> 1,350 to 100,000 people.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a Paramilitary organization?<\/h3>\n<p>A paramilitary organization (also listed as quasi military) is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not formally part of a country&#8217;s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/russias-wagner-admits-severe-losses-in-mali-battles\/article68460406.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Russia&#8217;s Wagner admits severe losses in Mali battles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wagner Group, officially called PMC Wagner, is a Russian paramilitary organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}