By early evening, more than 500 troops and 27 vehicles including tanks and armored personnel carriers had amassed. The number of casualties from the Feb. 7 fight is in dispute. Back at the mission support site, the Green Berets and Marines were preparing a small reaction force roughly 16 troops in four mine-resistant vehicles in case they were needed at the Conoco plant. They cant say that this is just a political issue or propaganda because we are bringing this case in Russian courts, under Russian law. 'There's no one to help': Russian mercenary industry's toll on families, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The documents described the fighters as a pro-regime force, loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. What can we glean from the current state of play on the battlefield? Within days of the second tranche of videos being posted by open source investigators on Twitter, reporters with al-Jessr Press, a Paris-based media outlet that reports on Syria, published the very first account of Boutas killing. Russian who filmed prisoner being tortured to death worked for firm with links to Kremlin. to the research by Frontline Forensics, which was published by New America. Questions remain about exactly who the Russian mercenaries were, and why they attacked. The victim is reported to be Mohammad Taha al Ismail Abdallah of Deir ez-Zor, whom the contractors accused of deserting from the Syrian army. FPs Ravi Agrawal spoke with two of the very best Russia experts:Angela Stent, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author ofPutins World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest, and Michael Kofman, the research program director of the Russia studies program at the Center for Naval Analyses. The Kremlin on Monday sought to distance itself from the video, which has been widely discussed on Russian social media, with spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying it was not our business. Having first appeared in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where Wagner fighters trained and fought alongside separatist rebels against the Ukrainian army, the groups operatives have since cropped up everywhere from Venezuela to the Central African Republic, Syria, and Libya. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said he had not had time to watch the video. It sheds new light on the networks operations and reveals how the killing became a rallying point for Russian ultranationalists online. The documents reveal that the company. International Federation for Human Rights. With Russia suffering heavy losses, according to U.S. intelligence, Mr. Putin is sending battle-hardened reinforcements with experience into Ukraine, according to experts, including Jeremy Fleming, the director of Britains electronic surveillance agency. There have also been widespread reports of Wagner recruiting foreign convicts in prisons across Russia, including citizens from the five central Asian nations. It was dark, according to the documents, and the roads were littered with felled power lines and shell craters. Diplomacy, To Save France, Macron Is Dividing Europe, The United States Has Never Recovered From the Falklands War. MatthewLuxmooreis a Moscow-based journalist covering Russia and the former Soviet Union. Vagner's operations have always been shrouded in secrecy, but its role in Syria came into the spotlight in February 2018 when U.S. military commanders launched a massive ground and air assault against a column of fighters and weaponry in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor. Alexander Malkevich, whose employees were detained in Libya, is part of Moscows efforts to create a concert of chaos around the globe. horus of lawmakers in Europe and Asia have begun to say the United States is fostering unfair competition. Commanders briefed pilots and ground crews. He said Russia seemed to be turning to them to bolster its troops in the east of Ukraine because the group already had experience fighting in the Donbas region for the past eight years. Is it? The American commandos took cover, then ran behind dirt berms to fire anti-tank missiles and machine guns at the advancing column of armored vehicles. In 2018, American authorities filed criminal charges against Prigozhin for alleged financial ties to the internet troll farm accused of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Only FP subscribers can submit questions for FP Live interviews. It wasnt until November 2019, when further videos emerged, that journalists were able to identify the perpetrators as well as the victim. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Mercenaries are illegal under Russian law. A monthly digest of the top articles read by FP subscribers. He married and started a family. The companies hit by sanctions included gold and diamond mining operations in the CAR and Sudan. Wagner forces have appeared in Ukraine, presumably to fight alongside Russian troops in Mr. Putins war. The newspaper also offered to hand over materials acquired to Russian law enforcement. Russia and the US have both been on repeated diplomatic missions to Africa since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, trying to win allies and explain their positions as the fighting has serious knock-on impacts for food and fuel prices for some of the poorest parts of the world. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Jessica Chen Weiss, formerly a senior advisor for policy planning at the State Department under the Biden administration, makes the case that the United States is becoming consumed by competition with China, a strategy that could lead to dangerous conflict. Its officers serving in Syria are reported to earn up to 300,000 roubles (3,800; $5,300) a month. Last month, the FBI placed Prigozhin on its Most Wanted list in connection with his alleged role in interfering in American elections in 2016 and 2018, offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to his arrest The U.S. government has also sanctioned Prigozhin for his alleged ties to Russian mercenaries affiliated with the Wagner Group. The newspaper ties the men to Vagner, a shadowy Russian mercenary group widely believed to be spearheading the expansion of Russian influence across Africa and the Middle East. Click + to receive email alerts when new stories are published on. WebPosted by 2 days ago. Bouta later got in touch with his brother-in-law directly and told him that members of the Syrian Arab Army had taken him to the al-Draij military camp, a well-known deployment hub for Wagner Group fighters. A Russian-speaking man who filmed the torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria has been identified as a member of Wagner, a Russian private military company .. On the tenth anniversary of the Syrian revolution last year, a complaint against the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner was filed in Russian courts, the first case ever brought against the group. You may opt out at any time. Wagner Group The brutal torture and beheading in video from Syria, according to the Kremlin, none of Putin's business. Afterwards, the men posed for a photograph with the suspended body, across the torso of which they wrote: For the VDV [Russian airborne forces] and an out-of-focus word that appears to say razvedka, a term for military intelligence. Novaya Gazeta said it had first identified Stanislav D using online facial recognition software, then corroborated the results by showing he was a member of the private military company using a leaked copy of his passport. Russian government forces in Syria maintain they were not involved in the battle. If Putin had hoped to weaken NATO, the very opposite has happened, with Finland and Sweden on the cusp of joining the transatlantic military alliance. Bracing for an attack, the Green Berets prepared to launch the reaction force. Russian corporate records and customs documents reviewed by C4ADS as well as EvroPolis company records provided by the London-based Dossier Center show that the company was offered a 25 percent share of the revenues of Syrian oil and gas fields it was able to seize from the Islamic State. Wagner Group hired guns hammer a deserter to death Videotaped and shown on the internet, execution is a flesh-and-blood metaphor for the botched Ukraine invasion by Daniel Williams November 17, 2022 Print Yevgeny Nuzhin is pictured alive, before his executioner smashed his skull with a sledgehammer. The group sketched out activities like this as a standard mixture for Wagner, providing both military fighters, military and political and economic advice, and also securing business in the countries, often extracting raw materials, for businesses with ties to Wagner or Russia or both. Weekly update on whats driving U.S. national security policy. At the outpost, American soldiers watched a column of tanks and other armored vehicles turn and drive toward them around 10 p.m., emerging from a neighborhood of houses where they had tried to gather undetected. Its mercenaries have also fought in Ukraine and the Central African Republic, and are said to be active in Libya, Sudan and Mozambique. Vagner and other Russian private military companies have helped advance Moscow's influence efforts in regions beyond the Middle East, targeting countries that are often rich with natural resources and vulnerable to political influence from the outside. Advertisement. A team of about 30 Delta Force soldiers and Rangers from the Joint Special Operations Command were working alongside Kurdish and Arab forces at a small dusty outpost next to a Conoco gas plant, near the city of Deir al-Zour. The reaction team sped toward the fight. It sheds new light on the networks operations and reveals how the killing became a rallying point for Russian ultranationalists online. With Putins help, Assad has constrained the capacity of the United Nations to deliver health supplies in opposition-controlled territory, which faces rising risk of the coronavirus. One-stop digest of politics, economics, and culture. This has absolutely no relation to Russian soldiers, no matter what is being published about it, said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin. Mazen Darwish, one of several human rights activists pressing for justice in Boutas case and director general of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, said that Russian authorities have about 40 days to respond to the initial court filing. Saturday's additional sanctions were decided "in view of the international dimension and gravity of the group's activities, as well as its destabilizing impact on the countries where it is active,"said a statement from the European Council. Companies linked to the Wagner group are snapping up oil and gas leaseswith an eye to pumping influence, not oil. The group is often described as President Vladimir Putin s off-the-books troops. Initially, Russian officials said only four Russian citizens but perhaps dozens more were killed; a Syrian officer said around 100 Syrian soldiers had died. The other two Wagner-affiliated individuals sanctioned were suspected of war crimes in Ukraine, after reports of the organization having to move some of its fighting forces from African countries like Libya and Sudan to reinforce closer to Russia in recent months. United States F-22 stealth fighter jets above Syria, where the prospect of Russian military forces and American troops colliding has long been feared as the Cold War adversaries take opposing sides in the countrys seven-year civil war. It has since been hailing Russia as contributing to an end to post-colonial French influence in the country. Two years after the United States clashed with some sort of Wagner Group contingent in Deir Ezzor, the United States government still doesnt know anything about the organizational structure of these military contingents, Rondeaux said. And how might that be impacting the world? Following his capture by Ukrainian forces in September, Nuzhin gave a series of interviews in the country, in which he said he had joined the Wagner group to get out of prison and that he quickly hatched a plan to surrender to Ukraine. The brief filed on Friday in connection with Boutas case contends that the Russian government holds effective control over the Russian private military contingent that killed Bouta during operations at the al-Shaer gas plant. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in Pretoria on Monday for talks with one of Moscow's most important allies in Africa. In total the bloc targeted 11 individuals and seven entities it said was linked to the once-secretive private military and economic arm of Russian foreign policy controlled by a historically close ally of Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin. But Wagners work, which has reportedly been rewarded with oil concessions in Syria, has largely taken place in the shadows, and the video is a rare, shocking look at the groups actions in Syria. Prigozhin, who is under western sanctions for his role in Wagner, on Sunday voiced his approval for the killing, calling Nuzhin a traitor. The latest news, analysis, and data from the country each week. Mercenary activity that enables and secures these business interests has become the most visible manifestation of these networks. In September, Prigozhin, known as Putins chef because his catering business hosted dinners attended by the Russian president, admitted to founding Wagner, a link he has previously repeatedly denied. Theywere Wagner commanders said to be linked to Russia's capture of the town of Soledar in Ukraine in January. The mercenaries loosely coordinate with the Russian military in Syria, although Wagners leaders have reportedly received awards in the Kremlin, and its mercenaries are trained at the Russian Defense Ministrys bases. The small team of American troops was not harmed. Delivered Monday-Friday. A CAR radio station,Lengo Sengo, was also sanctioned on charges of spreading disinformation on Wagner's behalf. A new report by Frontline Forensics, a joint initiative of Arizona State University and the New America think tank. U.N. investigators and rights groups say Wagner troops have targeted civilians, conducted mass executions and looted private property in conflict zones. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any connections to Russian private military security contractors operating in Syria. Delivered Thursday. "The advent of the digital age means [such companies'] activities are often hidden in plain sight, and disinformation is no longer a fail-safe remedy when the secrecy of covert operations is compromised.". The mercenary, who was been identified as Stanislav D by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, is a former police officer from the Stavropol region in southern Russia. Russian corporate records and customs documents reviewed by C4ADS as well as EvroPolis company records provided by the London-based Dossier Center show that the company was offered a 25 percent share of the revenues of Syrian oil and gas fields it was able to seize from the Islamic State. The U.S. government has said that the organization is financed by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a Russian businessman and a close associate of Mr. Putin. In the video, the men urge each other on to greater violence, telling one to cut harder while beheading the victim. The outcome of the battle, and much of its mechanics, suggest that the Russian mercenaries and their Syrian allies were in the wrong part of the world to try a simple, massed assault on an American military position. A video surfaced on social media showing 2 #Wagner mercenaries torturing, beheading & lynching-on-fire a #Syria -n army defector in 2017, 'just for fun.' One person sanctioned by the EU was described as "the security advisor" to PresidentFaustin Archange-Touadera. Xi Jinpings signature foreign policy is a shadow of its former self.. Wagner is estimated to have as many as 2,500 men in Syria. Tonight, his family announced they had received news of his death under torture in Sednaya Prison. But in recent weeks, according to United States military officials, they have jammed the communications of smaller American drones and gunships such as the type used in the attack. Click + to receive email alerts when new stories are published on Their structure allows them to have plausible deniability and to create distance between the Russian state and the group, she said. are assisting Somali soldiers fighting Al Shabab, and by a health care system that utterly failed him, The case has irritated U.S. relations with a crucial military ally, four Russian citizens but perhaps dozens more. Explore the benefits of your FP subscription. U.S. forces clashed with pro-Syrian government forces, the majority of which are believed to have been Russian mercenaries, in Syrias Deir Ezzor province in 2018. In Syria, A Mutilated Corpse, Video Evidence, And New Scrutiny For Russian Mercenaries. An hour later, the enemy fighters had started to retreat and the American troops stopped firing. up as tough on Beijing, even seeking to contain the rise of the worlds second-biggest economy. On Monday, Zambias foreign affairs minister said a 23-year-old national from that country, who was serving a jail sentence at a prison on the outskirts of Moscow, ended up fighting in Ukraine, where he was killed. Join FPs Ravi Agrawal for a frank discussion about the Biden administrations China policy and alternatives that it ought to consider. According to Jesr, the man was captured by Russian forces after a desertion attempt from the Syrian Army. After the first video was anonymously posted in June 2017 three more were posted in November 2019 and began circulating widely on Russian social media platforms. At 1 a.m., with the artillery fire dwindling, the team of Marines and Green Berets pulled up to the Conoco outpost and began firing. Russias Wagner Group have as much power in Kremlin as ministers, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Bouta is believed to have been killed in the spring of 2017, and a video of his death first emerged online in June 2017. By one estimate from Harvard University, more than 130,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or severely wounded, in addition to the deaths of more than 7,000 Ukrainian civilians. Activists argue the struggles for state transparency and national liberation are one and the same. That person has not been identified. A handful of Marines ran ammunition to machine guns and Javelin missile launchers scattered along the berms and wedged among the trucks. From their outpost, the commandos watched the mercenaries and Syrian fighters return to collect their dead. Stroytransgaz, or STG, the company headed by Kremlin-insider Timchenko, is one of the largest such investors, and in February it secured a $22 million production sharing agreement with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, according to The Syria Report, an online journal that tracks economic developments in the country. The shaky cell phone footage taken at al-Shaer gas plant near Palmyra, Syria, But, as in many other developing countries, Syrias nationalized energy sector is highly reliant on external backing from foreign firms for capital-intensive upstream investment in exploration and development. Visitors wearing military camouflage at the Wagner Centre office building in St Petersburg. The barrage of artillery was too dangerous to drive through until airstrikes silenced the enemys howitzers and tanks. WASHINGTON The artillery barrage was so intense that the American commandos dived into foxholes for protection, emerging covered in flying dirt and debris to fire back at a column of tanks advancing under the heavy shelling. Between 200 to 300 fighters were killed in the battle, including scores of Russian mercenaries believed to be working in the region to seize control of a nearby gas plant on behalf of EvroPolis. The mercenaries earn of a share of the production proceeds from the oil fields they reclaim, officials said. Ukraine had a responsibility towards Nuzhin and he should have not been exchanged, given the dangers he faced in Russia.. According to one Russian human rights group, Wagner has recruited more than 20,000 prisoners to fight in Ukraine so far. The demonstrations come as President Kais Saied depicts opponents and foreigners as threats to national security. The Wagner Group has achieved near-mythical status in the Russian and international press in recent years for its role in Russias interference efforts abroad, but there is no evidence that a single registered entity called Wagner exists, said Jack Margolin, a senior analyst with the nonprofit Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), which provided analytical support for the report. The video published by Novaya Gazeta appears to be just one instalment of a series of clips that record the same incident at the hands of Russian-speaking fighters, including the victim's torture, mutilation, and, ultimately, decapitation. The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told senators in testimony last month. Wagner's fighters appeared in Libya in April 2019 when they joined the forces of a rebel general, Khalifa Haftar, after he launched an attack on the UN-backed Opponents of the dark money paramilitary outfit hope an attack through the courtswhich they expect to take all the way to European Court of Human Rightswill expose the scale of the abuses carried out by the shadowy forces used to conceal the Kremlins off-the-books military adventures all over the world. Commanders of the rival militaries had long steered clear of the other by speaking through often-used deconfliction telephone lines. Russia. The visit comes as South Africa prepares for joint naval drills with Russia and China next month. What can we glean from the current state of play on the battlefield? A new report by Frontline Forensics, a joint initiative of Arizona State University and the New America think tank, published on Tuesday explores the circumstances of Boutas death using company records and social media analysis. EvroPolis was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2018 for being owned or controlled by Prigozhin. Delivered Wednesday. It was quickly seized upon by open source investigators, who first identified the location of the video as the Shaer gas station near Homs and then pored over the video for clues to the mens identities. Their presence, in the eastern region known as Donbas that is home to Russia-backed separatist groups, raises concerns, given the groups history. A disturbing clip of an execution in Syria has prompted a Russian newspaper to investigate links between the torturers and the shadowy Wagner Group. Wagner has repeatedly been accused of war crimes and human rights abuses, including of the torture and slaying of prisoners in Syria, where it has been fighting alongside the Russian army and the government of Bashar al-Assad. The newspaper has not released the mans full last name in order to protect his family from potential reprisals. February's report into the Wagner Group had concluded that: "Looking ahead, it appears that Wagner is looking to expand into new territories in Africa, even as some of its troops have been drawn into supporting Russia's increasingly long-term war in Ukraine.". Ukraines economy and infrastructure have been dealt blows that will take decades to recover from. The Conoco outpost was hit with a mixture of tank fire, large artillery and mortar rounds, the documents show. Youre on the list! A billboard in Bangui with the slogan "The Central African Republic is hand in hand with Russia" (file photo), published what it claimed was the victim's name. [20] [29] [30]Utkin um veterano da Primeira e Segunda Guerra na Chechnia.At 2008 ou 2013, Utkin fez parte da Spetsnaz (foras especiais) do GRU onde chegou a patente de tenente-coronel By then, some of the American warplanes had returned to base, low on either fuel or ammunition. What government officials are saying in public, and private, is fascinatingand full of contradictions. Our whole family was in tears watching the video he was murdered like an animal, Nuzhin said. Increasingly, theyve become more formalized and have started acting more like Western military contractors. But as well as disputing Wagner's presence, Russia said it would "actively participate in collective efforts to stabilize the situation" and "develop a multifaceted cooperation with Burkina Faso," including potentially training the country's military. The Paris-based Syrian investigative news site Jesr Press was able to piece together the most detailed account of Boutas life and how he came to be captured by Russian mercenaries. Late last November, videos of a gruesome killing went viral on Russian social networks. He has reported for The New York Times in Moscowand has written for The Guardian, Politico, The New Republic, and Foreign Policy. Novikov said that Novaya Gazeta asked the Investigative Committee to open an inquiry into the murder, but the committee ignored the request. In a phone interview with The Daily Beast on Saturday, Darwish said that the case against the six Wagner Group paramilitaries is being lodged under articles in the Russian criminal code that call for the prosecution of anyone implicated in torture, grievous bodily injury, and murder. Ukraines economy and infrastructure have been dealt blows that will take decades to recover from. A few of the commandos, including Air Force combat controllers, worked the radios to direct the next fleet of bombers flying toward the battlefield. The open source investigation team Bellingcat also said it had identified the same person. Contacted by Novaya Gazeta, relatives and friends of the Russian man, named as Stanislav D., either did not respond or denied any affiliation with him. But researchers from groups such as Bellingcat and the Conflict Intelligence Team, as well as Russian journalists most notably from Novaya Gazeta and Fontanka, have been able to use fragments of publicly available information to build a clearer picture of who is fighting for Russias private military contractors abroad. WebAmerican intelligence officials say that the Wagner Group, known by the nickname of the retired Russian officer who leads it, is in Syria to seize oil and gas fields and protect them Vagner is one of the best-known of several Russian private military companies that have come into being over the past decade. A curated selection of our very best long reads. Questioned about the clip and Novaya Gazeta's report, the Kremlin denied any knowledge of the men depicted. standing, Ukrainians are determined to keep fighting, and the West has so far stayed resolute in its support of Ukraine. A Russian-speaking man who filmed the torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria has been identified as a member of Wagner, a Russian private military company with ties to the Kremlin that has aggressively expanded into the Middle East and Africa in recent years. Syrian authorities arrested Bouta as he crossed the border and turned him over to members of the Syrian military. After working for a time in Lebanon, Bouta decided to return to his family in Deir Ezzor. accused of war crimes and human rights abuses. Unless you have been on the battlefield in Syria, Libya or the Central African Republic, you most likely have never heard of the Wagner Group, a private military force with close links to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Subscribers can send in questions in advance. Ilya Nuzhin, Yevgenys son, confirmed to the Guardian on Monday that the man in the video was his father but declined to give further comments, citing security concerns. Some of the Green Berets and Marines took aim from exposed hatches. It included some Syrian government soldiers and militias, but American military and intelligence officials have said a majority were private Russian paramilitary mercenaries and most likely a part of the Wagner Group, a company often used by the Kremlin to carry out objectives that officials do not want to be connected to the Russian government. 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