{"id":100,"date":"2023-10-09T05:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T23:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/uncategorized\/wagner-group\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T06:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:57:49","slug":"wagner-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/upsc\/wagner-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Wagner Group<\/strong>, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a <strong>Russian paramilitary organization<\/strong>. It is seen as a <strong>private military company,<\/strong> a network of mercenaries and a de facto private army of <strong>Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/strong>, a businessman formerly with close ties to <strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It operates in <strong>support of Russian interests, receives equipment from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD)<\/strong> and has <strong>used MoD installations for training<\/strong>. While the Wagner Group itself is not ideologically driven, elements of it have been<strong> linked to neo-Nazism and far-right politics.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Wagner Group <strong>first appeared in Ukraine in 2014, <\/strong>where it participated in the annexation of Crimea. The group was also active in 2014, fighting with Russia-backed separatists in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dmitriy Valeryevich Utkin, a veteran of the First and Second Chechen Wars, reportedly founded the group<\/strong>. Until 2008 or 2013, Utkin served as lieutenant colonel and brigade commander of a unit of Spetsnaz GRU, the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Wagner-group.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41299\" style=\"width:907px;height:1415px\" width=\"907\" height=\"1415\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-100_98bf92-4d .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-100_98bf92-4d .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:var(--global-palette2, #2B6CB0);width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-100_98bf92-4d\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-international-relations"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":13,"label":"International Relations"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/author\/lotusarise469gmail-com\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":37,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":37,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":13,"name":"International Relations","slug":"international-relations","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":13,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":13,"category_count":1,"category_description":"","cat_name":"International Relations","category_nicename":"international-relations","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}