Posted on 11/29/2022 8:07:29 AM PST by dennisw
Summary executions. Torture. Rape. Recruiting violent prisoners.
These are hallmarks of the infamous Wagner Group – Russian private military company (PMC) led by a close ally of Putin whose fingerprints are all over the invasion of Ukraine.
Wagner mercenaries are deployed to further Russian interests abroad by doing the jobs that no official military branch could be associated with and have earned a reputation for using sheer force and brutality to achieve their goals.
The chief financier and founder of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin claims his contractors are deployed across the border to help achieve the Russian president's goal – the so-called 'denazification' of Ukraine.
But ironically, the methods employed by Wagner mercs bare a stark resemblance to those of the Dirlewanger brigade – a notorious division of the Nazis' SS paramilitary organisation who raped, murdered and pillaged their way through Europe as they executed Adolf Hitler's dark designs.
MailOnline recaps the foundations of the Wagner group and their heinous crimes, reviews the hallmarks of the reviled Dirlewanger brigade, and highlights the unsettling extent to which the two organisations share modus operandi.
PMC WAGNER
PMC Wagner is a mercenary group headed up by 'Putin's chef' Prigozhin and led by a sinister former lieutenant colonel of Russia's 'Spetsnaz' special forces, Dmitry Utkin.
The group has for years acted as Putin's personal band of enforcers, though it maintains connections with Russia's foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU.
Founded in 2014, Wagner contractors got straight to work following the annexation of Crimea, arming and organising separatist groups in the Donbas region of Ukraine and setting in motion events which culminated earlier this year in Putin's full-scale invasion of his neighbour.
In the eight years between Crimea's annexation and all-out war in Ukraine, Wagner mercs have been deployed abroad to covertly further Russian interests.
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If it’s the MAIL ONLINE, you have to check, and DOUBLE-CHECK for accuracy and truth at least 10 times before you can safely assume they story is accurate.
Dennisw - full-on globaloid Uke-screacher and purveyor of fake-News.
Noted.
lol, they have a picture of zelensky in their bathrooms for self gratification
Yevgeny Prigozhin is called Putin’s chef. He has catered many Kremlin affairs through the years. When Putin bites the dust, you will see Yevgeny Prigozhin and Ramzan Kadyrov join forces to take over. Both of these scum have their own private armies. Which is very helpful during turmoil in the Kremlin, when Vlad is dead or deposed.
YAWN
Ummm ... how about they just remind of the Soviets. No need to bring Germans into it when the Russians have a long history of being total dicks without the help.
If we’re gonna get into ‘Wagner Mercenaries’ how about taking a trip back to Einsatzgruppen 3 and their activities with Ukrainian thugs killing Jews in WWII, then...
Maybe, maybe not but still more accurate than the Putin cult.
The mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin (left), a close Putin ally and financier of PMC Wagner, have committed heinous war crimes on populations on several continents. Their methods bare a striking similarity to those of the Dirlewanger brigade, an infamous SS unit commanded by Oskar Dirlewanger (right)
There’s a Netflix series on Einsatzgruppen - The one (Group 3) on Ukraine was horrendous.
Palestinians post look-a-likes and Nazi comparisons too - but use Jews instead of Russians.
You’re making your fellow Isreal-firsters look bad.
NATO may see rapists illegally invading another country but I see undocumented workers and future doctors !
Open borders for Ukraine !
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