The son of the late Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and around 500 former mercenaries have built a major criminal empire in Africa.
After Prigozhin’s death in 2023, most Wagner overseas assets were absorbed by the Russian Defense Ministry’s African Corps. However, Pavel Prigozhin and about 500 loyalists refused to integrate and went independent.
They control illegal gold mining at the Ndassima mines in the Central African Republic, generating an estimated $500 million annually.
The group has also established its own drug cartel, smuggling high-dose tramadol, known in Africa as “cocaine for the poor,” and distributing it to fighters, pro-Russian demonstrators, and miners. They use the profits to buy weapons and maintain independence.
They have additionally set up the production of addictive alcoholic surrogates mixed with tramadol.
Local authorities in the Central African Republic are unable to dismantle this autonomous narco-empire in remote regions.
Rog Report masiv acestui imbecil jumate ungur-jumate rus @sziberiai care nu scapă nicio ocazie să aibă un discurs xenofob și șovin la adresa românilor. Nu uita, javră, de mâna mea dispari de pe Twitter! 🤡🤮
Z-bloggers say Ukraine has adopted a new battlefield tactic centered on infiltration through wooded terrain with minimal equipment. They claim small groups move in lightly equipped, then receive aerial resupply at designated locations, including Starlink terminals and weapons, allowing troops to remain mobile, conserve energy, and sustain offensive maneuvers.
@duta_cristi@MarianC37076513 🤔”exagerat de mare”….o fii.
Dar eu îmi amintesc ce panică era la începutul pandemiei nimeni neștiind cat durează și câte doze vaccin vor fi necesare.
Cred ca e ușor să critici acum, știind cum au evoluat lucrurile.
🤬 The ballistic missile that the Russians used to attack Kyiv at night was equipped with shrapnel, — head of RVA Kovtunov.
Shrapnel is metal balls or fragments that fly apart during an explosion to increase human casualties.
In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.
He was 81 years old. He refused.
Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.
He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.
Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.
They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.
Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.