it was founded by russian businessmen if any progression who's close to president william appleton, who are in the group recently recruited russian prisoners to fight in ukraine promising them freedom if they survive. is also active in parts of the middle east and west africa, including countries like marley and burkina faso. lexi moreover, is a russian specialist associate professor of national security and strategic studies that continue reversed in perth, australia. he says the wagner group is trying to monopolize military contracts in ukraine that the on the group and the fact that the lead on the growth is sort of complaining about. so he's actually accusing the russian minister of defense of not providing or re elements of the walkman with much needed them. you need to. and so we're talking about heavy artillery here and that comes up the week . so here, pretty much speak. you'll agent that it was the walk in the group that. busy responsible for a lot of success if you're in rushes offensive, been done by that, it was the bargaining group that took on and major in, in, in, in curt