I'm still not entirely convinced that all the guys that are claimed to be wagner actually are wagner, or even exist. As far as i know the actual wagner company is a small office in Hong Kong. Officially, legally, mercenaries and pmcs are illegal in Russia. It may be that the wagner dudes are allowed because they're not actually in Russia, or some other loophole, but i have this feeling that the western press uses "wagner" as an explanation for a bunch of stuff that isn't actually a western style pmc, or they just use the term when they're not sure what they're looking at. From what i've read wagner almost certainly is not a single company or a single organization, but rather a loose group of different organizations that might include intelligence, different kinds of mercenaries, and maybe non mercenary contractorsm