Christopher M. Faulkner is an assistant professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College and a senior nonresident fellow at Delphi Global and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a co-author of the forthcoming Moscow’s Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group. The views expressed are his own and do not represent the U.S. Navy, Defense Department, or U.S. government.
An Azawad Liberation Front militant stands on a pickup truck next to a damaged Russian Mi-24 helicopter at the former Africa Corps barracks in Kidal, Mali, on May 6.
This photograph shows the newly-inaugurated bronze statue in the likeness of the late Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitru Utkin erected in Bangui, Central African Republic on Dec. 3, 2024.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers remarks alongside Democratic Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (L) and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe during a Declaration of Principles signing ceremony at the State Department in Washington on April 25.
