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Russia, Thailand
Wagner-linked companies continue operating in Thailand

The apparent shell companies in Thailand are linked to Igor Lavrenkov, a former associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin. [...]

Published on 01.12.2023 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Anocha Yangphonkhan
Barbara Grinzai
BC 1 Trade
Blue Creek (Thailand
Igor Lavrenkov
Krittha Yotprasert
Lei Yuting
Natalia Maximenko
Pavel Prigozhin
Samui Rocket
Shine Dragon Group
Shine Dragon Holding (Thailand
Varvara Mirochnik
Wagner
Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Defence networks in flux

Amid budget cuts and the waning influence of former defence minister Prawit Wongsuwat, some companies are looking for new political backers Bangkok.

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Wagner struggles to fill African vacancies

Two of the private military company's units in the Central African Republic are desperately short of fresh personnel. Intelligence Online is privy to recruitment efforts via closed chat groups on Telegram.

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Russian officers from the Wagner group in Central Africa, July 2023.

Russia
Shadow mobilisation: Wagner veterans sell to the highest bidder

A black market of former Wagner fighters has sprung up as Russian regions struggle to fill their recruitment quotas for the war in Ukraine. Officers from the now defunct militia are selling their fighters to the highest-bidding local authorities.

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Wagner Group's flag atop a tank exhibited at the Leninist Komsomol park in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, 1 October 2023.

United Kingdom
UK's Foreign Office, Russia Unit and MI6 lead fight against Wagner

The British Foreign Office and the intelligence services attached to it are at the centre of an inter-ministerial mechanism coordinating the fight against the Russian private military company Wagner, mainly through counter-disinformation.

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Vladimir Alekseyev, the bridge between military intelligence and paramilitary groups

The first deputy director of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GU, has been quietly overseeing the reorganisation of private military firms on the front line in Ukraine.

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General Vladimir Alekseyev, Deputy Director of the GU.

Spotlight | Russia
Wagner group splits into two plus one

The fighters, officers and resources of the paramilitary group founded by Yevgeny Pirgozhin are streaming into the three new organisations secretly validated by the Kremlin. Positions in the Africa unit are in high demand, but those of the Ukraine and Middle East branches are proving hard to fill.

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A man attaches a Wagner flag to a tank in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on 1 October 2023.

Russia
FSB on alert as Wagner fighters head home

The return of these soldiers to their families is being closely monitored by the intelligence service, which fears social unrest. Many of these mercenaries have neither been paid nor received the social benefits they were promised, and refuse to join the regular forces.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 25.09.2023

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Anocha Yangphonkhan
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