Murdered Russian Journalists In Africa Were Onto Something Dangerous for Putin

Murdered Russian Journalists In Africa Were Onto Something Dangerous for Putin: But the Wagner Group is something special. Some have called it Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “private army.” The organization is led by Dmitry Utkin, who was once a member of the Russian special forces and is currently under U.S. sanctions for aiding Russian-backed separatists in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.