A new book delves deep into the rise and fall of the Russian paramilitary Wagner Group and its close ties to Vladimir Putin.

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Even though it’s not “their” empire, not the one victimising ... I could not bring myself to see a “mercenary” in him. I saw a misguided young man the age my son could be.

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