oil production facility personnel and Russian diplomats. In order to establish itself in the Iraq environment, the company received direct support from the FSB (intelligence). See also List of private security and military companies Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022 Patriot (PMC) Wagner Group Literature Tor Bukkvoll, Åse G. Østensen: Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies-the implications for European and Norwegian Security, FFI-RAPPORT, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, 11 September 2018, retrieved from researchgate.net on 18 September 2022. Tor Bukkvoll, Åse G. Østensen: The Emergence of Russian Private Military Companies: A New Tool of Clandestine Warfare, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, DOI:10.1080/23296151.2020.1740528, 2020 External links Putin's Invisible Army, Grzegorz Kuczyński, Warsaw Institute, 30 March 2018. Analysis: Russian PMCs in the Middle East and Africa, Felix Riefer, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 8 February 2021, accessed 18 September 2022 References Russo-Georgian War