The molar indictment also linked pregozen to a russian disinformation campaign to discredit hilary clinton and help donald trump in the two thousand 16 election. So that's one of the big things that they're known fors, operating these large scale anti air force missile batteries as well as long range military operations for artillery missiles and so forth. They are essentially the kind of spooky soldiers operations for russia.
The Wagner Group, a superviolent (and supersecretive) team of Kremlin-aligned mercenaries, is doing Vladimir Putin’s dirty work in Ukraine and around the world.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette (who also did the fact-check) and Noel King (who also hosted).
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