A. Regular Army of Russia
B. Private Army of Mercenaries
C. Nija Fighters of Japan
D. Special Services Group of UK
History, Facts, Strength, and Motives of Wagner Group:
PMC Wagner is the full name of The Wagner Group. Russian paramilitary group Wagner Private Military Company. It is regarded as the de facto private army of Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman who once had close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, and other entities. It supports Russian interests, receives materiel from the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), and has conducted training exercises on facilities owned by the MoD. Although the Wagner Group as a whole is not politically motivated, several of its members have ties to far-right parties and neo-Nazism.
In 2014, the Wagner Group made its first appearance in Ukraine, where it took part in the takeover of Crimea. The group was still active in 2014, engaging in combat in the Ukrainian province of Luhansk with separatists backed by Russia.
Wagner has 1,000 workers at the beginning of 2016, 5,000 by August 2017, and 6,000 by December 2017. The company allegedly has offices in Saint Petersburg and Hong Kong and is registered in Argentina. Wagner inaugurated a new corporate office and technological hub at PMC Wagner Center in the east of Saint Petersburg in November 2022. As of June 2023, the Wagner Group is said to have a soldier strength of 20–25 thousand.