On Tuesday, January 29, The Bell, an Estonia-based media startup, released a report documenting the history of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner, which made headlines in February 2018 following a botched assault on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zour region, leaving scores of Russian mercenaries dead.
Polygraph: ‘Putin’s chef’ denies existence of mercenary group Wagner
Murat Esaliev, personal number M-2234, the Russian army active duty serviceman, supposedly a gun layer with the Wagner group's armored company. He is also identified as Wagner mercenary in reports by Ukraine's SBU service.
