This Wall Street Journal documentary traces Wagner’s evolution from a small, guns-for-hire operation into a sprawling network of businesses that has been active on four continents.
The Wagner Group began as a small clandestine force but has grown in recent years into a global war cartel run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, plundering gold and diamonds while advancing the Kremlin’s strategic interests and becoming the face of the Russian assault in Ukraine.