They're often compared to blackwater, which is a private company that protects us business and military interests throughout the world. But they don't sound like blackwater at all, based on what you're telling me. It sounds more like it's a hydra. There's a bunch of different heads coming off of the body. That's till me, right? O, ok, this is very interesting. So that, i imagine, makes them even harder to identify. It's not like there's a wagner group uniform, right? There isn't a wagener group uniform, that's right. You know, there are patches, you know, that have been seen. And
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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