Inside Cyber Warfare by Jeffrey Caruso

Author:Jeffrey Caruso
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2024-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 5-3. A still captured from a video about civilian resistance in Kyiv.9

The Wagner Group’s Campaign

After about four months of providing training, Col. Milburn and his growing team of trainers, who became known as the Mozart Group (a counter to Prigozhin’s Wagner Group), began receiving requests to take food and water to civilians trapped on the front lines of the war in Eastern Ukraine where the fighting was worst—Soledar and Bakhmut. Prigozhin called the area a “meat grinder” where progress was measured in meters per day.

Mozart’s evacuation team also extracted women, children, and elderly people who wanted to leave the front, all the while avoiding Russian small arms fire, artillery, and drone strikes. Pretty soon the Mozart Group’s humanitarian work with civilians who had formerly favored a Russian-controlled Ukraine resulted in a shift of loyalty from Russia to Ukraine. The group was making a difference, and did it all without carrying any weapons and for very little pay.

Prigozhin, whose forces were suffering massive losses to the extent that he was recruiting new soldiers from Russian prisons to send into the meat grinder of Bakhmut, took notice of what the Mozart Group was achieving with four team members, a jeep, and a van. He decided to act against them by using his troll farm at the IRA to plant lies about them on social media, and by using the Wagner Group to threaten the hotels where Mozart team members stayed.10

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