/k/ The Wagner Saga

This page outlines the Wagner storyline going from their involvement in the Battle of Bakhmut to present day.
Now you're probably wondering why this is here on a fucking divegrass wiki, well it's here to tell all the insane shit the player Wagner's Race to Moscow represent.
The Battle of Bakhmut and the Wagner PMC has been a very hot topic on /k/ despite being a bit of a controversial topic on the board >muh current events belongs on /pol/.

The Story So Far...

The Battle of Bakhmut(1 August 2022 - ongoing) has been described as the 21st century's equivalent of The Battle of Passchendaele from WWI, some even say it's the equivalent of The Battle of Verdun. Houses lay in complete ruin, soldiers live in muddy trenches and the forests have turned into a complete wasteland of mud, exploded trees and craters. Hardly any land of value has been taken as of this being written. It is currently a meat grinder with the Ukranian Armed Forces duking it out against the Russian Armed Forces assisted by the Donetsk People's Militia and the Wagner PMC. The Wagner PMC which was been doing a lot of Russia's dirty work the past decade has been a main player in the Battle of Bakhmut, consisting of volunteers and former convicts, they've been the most aggressive force in the area and have been taking extremely high causualties assaulting the Ukranian positions.
Update January: After weeks of slow grinding, the Wagner PMC took control large parts of the salt mining town of Soledar on Bakhmut's Northern flank, the situation is currently evolving. Bakhmut however remains in Ukranian hands, but with parts of the Northern flank compromised time can only tell what's gonna happen next.
Update March: After months of bitter fighting the flanks of Bakhmut has fallen into the control of the Russian and Wagner forces. As of March 18th Wagner forces control the eastern parts of Bakhmut but the rest of the town remains in Ukranian hands, currently the Ukranian forces have been ordered to hold the town despite the toll it is taking their forces. Despite these advances by the combined Russian/Wagner forces there has been many questions asked to why so many lives should be sacrificed for a town of dubious strategic value.
Update April: As of late April 2023 the Battle for Bakhmut has devolved into urban fighting in the western parts of the city were the Ukranian army is making a stand against the relentless waves of Wagner and VDV forces. The city still has not been encirlced and Ukraine has a corridor for supplying their own forces although it is under constant threat from attacks on the flanks and artillery. Russia declared that they have >legally captured Bakhmut although they still have to take the last 20% of the city that is left in the west. By the turn of May the battle will have been going on for 8 months straight. The catchphrase >Russia still hasn't taken Bakhmut still rings loudly on /k/.
Update May 5th: The Wagner group announced on May 5th that they will leave Bakhmut May 10th after some very A N G E R Y videos from the chief Yevgeny Prigozhin accusing the Russian Ministry of Defence for undersupplying the Wagner Group with ammunition. Between April 30th - May 4th the Wagner troops averaged a 100 men killed a day. Ramzan Kadyrov has announced Chechen troops will replace the Wagner troops. As of this being written the Ukranian positions is being bombarded with incendiary ammunition and everything is fire. Will Bakhmut hold until 10th? Only time will tell...
Update May 24th: By May 21st Wagner pushed out the the Ukranian troops from Bakhmut and Putin declared the city taken. But the battle is not over yet as the Ukranian armed forces are making moves on the flanks of the city.
ESTIMATED RUSSIAN DEATH TOLL: 46,000-66,000
ESTIMATED UKRANIAN DEATH TOLL: 30,000
After Wagner PMC managed to push the Ukranians out of Bakhmut at the end of May, they would hand over the control of the city ruins to the Russian Armed Forces. The seizure of Bakhmut could only be described as phyrric victory of the Wagner PMC and the Russian Armed Forces as they took extremely high amounts of casualties in the process, this prompted a lot of accusations going back and forth with the Wagner PMC financier Yevgeny Prigozhin calling out the Russian Ministy of Defence of intentionally undersupplying them with ammunition. These tensions kept on growing after the battle was over, with more accusations of the Russian Minstry of Defence trying to covertly destroy Wagner units. It all culiminated on June 23rd when Yevgeny Prigozhin published another video where he called out the entire basis for the Russian >Special >Military >Operation. What followed was a straight up Wagner PMC mutiny where they swiftly took over Rostov(The HQ for the Russian SMO) with no bloodshed. Their goal was to eliminate the Russian Minister of Defence and the Army Chief of Staff. What followed was a highway convoy of Wagner vehicles that were blitzing their way from Rostov to Voronezh with the final destination being Moscow. The Kremlin forces tried to stop this convoy but they had little success as helicopters and planes got shot down by anti-air vehicles controlled by Wagner. However when the convoy was 200km away from Moscow, the entire mutiny got called off. Yevgeny Prigozhin struck some deal with the Belarusian President Lukashenko and the Wagner forces turn back to their camps. Currently Wagner PMC and Prigozhin are exiled to Belarus, their future remains unclear. This whole shitshow led to prime shitposting hours on /k/.
The saga ended with Prigozhin and his henchmen having their plane crash with no survivors in Russia. While the circumstances are highly suspect no one knows the true nature of it other than that there was an explosion aboard the plane, some speculate in it being a bomb planted by the FSB glowies.