
Who's Afraid of The Wagner Group?
The Briefing Room
Are the Russians Involved in the Ukraine Operation?
Marina Myron: Can we establish when Wagner started operating in Ukraine? I mean, were they there back in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea? Well, after the annexation of Crimea, allegedly, the Wagner group was deployed to train the opposition in eastern Ukraine. So it is plausible to believe that that's when Wagner's operation started in Ukraine. Were they subsequently involved in the lower level fighting that's been going on in eastern Ukraine ever since, do we know? I would assume that they were indeed because they also needed to train the units, the resistance units.
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