THE PLAYERS
THE WAGNER LEADERSHIP
Andrey Nikolaevich TROSHEV
(a.k.a. Andrei Mykolayvych TROSHEV)
Андрей Николаевич ТРОШЕВ
Position(s): Retired colonel, Founding member and Executive Director (Chief of Staff) of the Wagner Group;
Rank: Retired Colonel;
Call sign: Siedoy;
Date of birth: 5.4.1953;
Place of birth: Leningrad, former USSR (now Russian Federation);
Nationality: Russian;
Gender: male
Relatives/Associates:
Dimitriy Utkin (Wagner Group Founder);
Andrey Bogatov (Head of the 4th Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group),
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kuznetsov (Commander of the 1st Attack and Reconnaissance Company of the Wagner Group);
Executive Director (Chief of Staff) 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 Troshev is directly involved in the military operations of the Wagner Group in Syria. He was particularly involved in the area of Deir ez-Zor. As such, he provides a crucial contribution to Bashar al-Assad’s war effort and therefore supports and benefits from the Syrian regime.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D2199&qid=1688159484817
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/14/europe/russia-andrey-troshev-wagner-intl/index.html