IEEE – Wagner and his “freedom march”: the two days that shook the Kremlin.

2023-09-04 06:00:00

04/09/2023

Wagner and his “march for freedom”: the two days that shook the Kremlin.- Guillem Colom Piella

The war in Ukraine has increased the popularity of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder and director of the private military contractors (PMC) company Wagner. This oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin — at least until the uprising last June — is considered an “influence action entrepreneur” because of the complex network of gray area tools he possesses, of which PMC Wagner is a part. His leading role during the war, and more specifically during the Russian winter offensive, led him to make a series of decisions that culminated in the “freedom march” that put almost the entire world on edge, a crisis that would end up closing for two months. later with the removal of Prigozhin.

Document prepared by Guillem Colom Piella. Doctor in International Security.