
Handout image from Russian Defense Ministry of military helicopter
(Picture: AP)Poorly trained operatives in a Russian defence unit known as ‘Putin’s private army’ are being threatened with “summary execution”, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said.
The British government tweeted about the Wagner Group on Monday morning, a Putin-loyal military proxy operation which continues to take a major role in attritional combat around the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut.