The russian army is being criticized right now for brutality against civilians. Wagner is kind of an elite fighting force. Are they more disciplined? By no means. Oh, these are very undisciplined soldiers. O and we know that because we know more about them than we should, simply from their social media accounts. We also know more about their war crimes in the syrian contact and in the central an republic contrest and in libyad because they are their big fans of coasting their war crimes on line.
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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