Is Wagner PMC Returning? Fighters From Supposedly Disbanded Group Are Getting Spotted in Ukraine and in Africa
After the long siege of Bakhmut, following by the dramatic and aborted insurrection and finally with Prigozhin’s death in a filmed fiery plane crash in August, the mere mention of the name Wagner carries some weight, some drama.
Whatever your opinion about the outfit, it’s the stuff of legend.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides have lost their lives in Artemovsk/Bakhmut, in what has been widely considered one of the toughest battles since the Second World War – the ‘meat grinder’, the ‘vortex’.
While US and UK officials have, as of late, tried to downplay the strategic importance of Bakhmut (Ukrainian name), deeming it to be merely ‘symbolic’, Ukrainian president previously Zelensky stated that a loss in Bakhmut would mean an open road for Russian forced to attack other important cities in Eastern Ukraine.
