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On Tuesday, January 29, The Bell, an Estonia-based media startup, released a report documenting the history of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner, which made headlines in February 2018 following a botched assault on U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zour region, leaving scores of Russian mercenaries dead.Russian authorities were not forthcoming about the circumstances around that incident, which occurred on on February 7, 2018. Later, Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed the clash had left dead citizens of Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries" and ""several dozen"" wounded.Wagner’s involvement in Syria was first reported in 2017 by Denis Korotkov for the Russian investigative website Fontaka. Kortokov reported that Russian mercenaries first began operating in Syria under the Wagner banner in 2015.In compiling their report
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