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187. Riding on Moscow: Wagner's 24 Hour Mutiny

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Wagner's Operation in the Ukraine War

The Russian Ministry of Defense was bogged down in Buckmouth by the by the Ukrainians and it turned into a slug fest. So Wagner was brought in to basically overwhelm the Ukrainians. They were using unsupported infantry assaults or very lightly supported infantry assaults against the Ukrainians who had very much overwhelming firepower. And again, as I touched on earlier, these were men who were from prison or from from the military who maybe didn't have anything to go back to but they were more working for a paycheck than an ideological cause.

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