CHAPTER 22 Russian Commercial Warriors on the Battlefield
Journal: Leiden University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Since the war in Ukraine started in February 2022, the Wagner group has become the personification of evil.'Mercenaries' or 'soldiers of fortune' as they have been called still leads to misunderstanding and disapproval in the Western world.But denying the existence of so-called soldiers of fortune is denying the past, present and the future of warfare.This chapter argues that the line between mercenarism and Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) is very thin, due to a lack or the absen