Conflict coverage · Eastern Europe

Wagner mutiny

Jun 2023Key event

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Leadership changeMilitaryPoliticalForce generation and defence industry

The Wagner Group seizes Rostov-on-Don and marches on Moscow before standing down; its founder dies in a plane crash two months later.

Why it mattersThe most serious internal challenge to the Russian state in decades — and the reason Wagner's successors were folded under Ministry of Defence control.

Confidence: HighSources: Established historical recordMethodology Corrections

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Force generationPayment instead of compulsion
Donbas attritionBakhmut and the winter of maximum cost

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Wagner successor

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Wagner Group (lineage) · atlasParticipanthigh confidence

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