THE PLAYERS
THE WAGNER LEADERSHIP
Andrey Mikhailovich BOGATOV
(a.k.a. Andrei Mychailovych BOGATOV)
Андрей Михайлович БОГАТОВ
Position(s): Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group;
Call sign: Brodiaga;
Wagner group ID: M-1601;
Date of birth: 14.6.1964;
Place of birth: Stary Oskol , Belgorod region , former USSR (now Russian Federation);
Nationality: Russian;
Relatives/Associates: Dimitriy Utkin (Wagner Group Founder); Andrey Nikolaevich Troshev (Founding member and Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group), Aleksandr Sergeevich Kuznetsov (Commander of the 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group);
Gender: male
Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group, which operates in Syria and trains and directs Syrian forces. The Wagner Group also supports the Assad regime and fights alongside regime-affiliated militias and the Syrian army.
Andrey Bogatov commands the operations of the Wagner Group and is directly involved in the military operations of the Wagner Group in Syria. He was particularly involved in the battle of Palmyra. As such, he provides a crucial contribution to Bashar al-Assad’s war effort and therefore supports and benefits from the Syrian regime.
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