group: If it is confirmed that contractors from the group traveled to Venezuela, this would be their first known deployment in the western hemisphere, according to The Guardian. Venezuela at the crossroads the who, what and why of the crisis Read more The order came down on Monday to form a group to go to Venezuela. Citing three sources, the news agency said that the mercenaries are linked to the Wagner group, which has carried out missions in Ukraine and Syria and is now reportedly active in countries in Africa, too. They are there to protect those at the highest levels of the government, Yevgeny Shabaev, a Cossack leader with ties to military contractors, told the Guardian by telephone. He said he had been told about the trip by the relatives of the military contractors. Shabaev, one of the sources cited by Reuters, is a campaigner for the rights of veterans, a group that overlaps heavily with those who join mercenary groups in Russia.
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