Wagner, Putin’s Shadow Army is a geopolitical investigation into the private Russian military company the Wagner Group. This secret militia belongs to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a billionaire businessman who has been slapped with a multitude of international sanctions and is a close ally of Vladimir Putin. Wagner doesn’t have an official mandate, yet it is spearheading the new Cold War ignited by the strongman in the Kremlin: extending Russia’s influence zones (in particular in Africa and the Middle East), conducting campaigns to destabilize Western powers, launching disinformation operations, and committing targeted assassinations and war crimes