How Wagner’s special department works

Specialists of the Wagner PMC are supposedly responsible for the security and secrecy of mercenary operations. But in reality, it turns out a little differently: it is thanks to the leak of materials from the special department that the names of all participants in the brutal execution in Syria using a sledgehammer have been established.

Now we are telling (and showing) how the Wagner PMC special department works and who is in charge of it. The head of the special officers is Ruslan Mikhailov (formerly Akhmedov), a former detective of the department of his own security in the police of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

In Wagner, it is forbidden to be photographed on missions, especially with weapons, but Mikhailov himself neglects this ban, not to mention the rest of the fighters. Also, mercenaries are not allowed to drink and use drugs – nevertheless, this remains a mass phenomenon. Yes, and punished for misconduct is not at all as severe as Prigozhin says.

You can get off with a fine even for the murder of a colleague. For example, a grenade exploded at one of the fighters in the room – one person was killed and one was injured. There were rumors about a conflict in the team, but the security service did not check it and only demanded that the culprit compensate for the damage. This happens due to the fact that PMCs are excluded from the legal space. Formally, mercenarism is prohibited, so the state ignores the existence of PMCs. As a result, several retired security officials keep order at Wagner – and not very successfully.