Christopher Faulkner is an assistant professor of national security affairs in the College of Distance Education of the U.S. Naval War College and a senior nonresident fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a co-author of the forthcoming book Moscow’s Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group.
This photograph shows the newly-inaugurated bronze statue in the likeness of the late Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitru Utkin erected in Bangui, Central African Republic on Dec. 3, 2024.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivers remarks alongside Democratic Republic of the Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (L) and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe during a Declaration of Principles signing ceremony at the State Department in Washington on April 25.
