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Section sizes Section size for Wagner Group (41 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 47,052 47,052 Origins and leadership 1,521 16,564 Yevgeny Prigozhin 7,067 7,067 Dmitry Utkin 6,889 6,889 Konstantin Pikalov 1,087 1,087 Organization 11,933 35,325 Recruitment, training, techniques 13,221 13,221 Units 12 10,171 Rusich unit 5,119 5,119 Serb unit 5,040 5,040 Relationship with the Russian state 23,520 30,587 Wagner Group rebellion 7,067 7,067 Activities 543 89,242 Ukraine 1,012 37,459 Crimea annexation and War in Donbas 14,696 14,696 Full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022 21,751 21,751 Belarus 9,716 9,716 Syria 10,513 10,513 Africa 5,273 28,663 Sudan 5,412 5,412 Central African Republic 7,305 7,305 Libya 4,252 4,252 Mali 6,421 6,421 Venezuela 2,348 2,348 Possible activities 24 9,413 Moldova 962 962 Nagorno-Karabakh 5,042 5,042 Serbia 680 680 Other 2,705 2,705 Casualties 19,586 19,586 Sanctions 8,817 8,817 Plane crash 3,962 3,962 Far-right elements 6,759 6,759 Awards and honors 9,078 9,078 Post Yevgeny Prigozhin's death 2,848 3,799 Nationalization of Wagner Group 951 951 Notable members 719 719 See also 96 96 Citations 27 27 Further reading 4,515 4,515 External links 1,170 1,170 Total 286,711 286,711

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TenshiPT (talk) 12:59, 16 June 2024 (UTC) At the final category (Post-Prigozhin's death) there's a sentence that says: "Wagner is officially becoming a unit of Rosgvardia...The entire structure, methods of work and commanders remain the same.", there's supposed to be "an unit of Rosgvardia" not "a unit of Rosgvardia"

 Not done: a unit is correct, an is only used when the next word begins with a vowel sound (regardless of whether the letter is a vowel or not). Unit begins with the consonant sound Y like a university or a universal truth. You only need an when the U makes a vowel sound like in an umbrella. English is a very weird language. Jamedeus (talk) 01:29, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Contradictory payment figures

There are paymen figures in this article that hardly make sense. Namely, it says that the pay could be between 80,000-250,000 rubles or 667-2083 in USD citing a 2017 article. So the USD/RUB ratio was about 120 back then. Problem is, back in 2017 and prior the USD/RUB ratio was between 60-70 rubles, and even if we take into accout the taxes, it is still way off the 667-2083 range stated in the same sentence. The same applies to the next sentence, which states that 300,000 RUB corresponds to 2,500 USD according to an article published again in 2017 - once again a random USD/RUB ratio which has nothing to do with 2017 reality. Gorgedweller (talk) 11:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

THis looks like OR. Slatersteven (talk) 12:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

It may very well be. Either someone failed to understand the article they cited, or the authors of the article are really bad at math. 12:10, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Or that was not the exchange rate in 2017, care to link to a source for it? Slatersteven (talk) 12:14, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Russian source about the groups origins

https://styler-rbc-ua.translate.goog/rus/zhizn/stalo-izvestno-voznikla-chvk-vagner-boeviki-1520445072.html?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=el&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 2604:3D09:1F7F:8B00:F03E:E177:15E6:22E2 (talk) 02:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Lack of info post 2023

There is no info presented here about the groups activities after 2023 2A02:587:E83F:DEAA:10B3:9D14:330A:1B94 (talk) 16:47, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

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