When Wagner first went to Syria as contractors, they were most likely employed by the Russian military. They participated in attacks on Aleppo, on Palmyra. It seems like at some point, probably late 2017, early 2018, the contracts with the Ministry of Defense dried up. And so Wagner decided to go out and search for other ways to make money through an entity called Yevil Polis.

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