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Vladimir Putin’s ‘private army’ chief accuses Russia’s top brass of trying to destroy his Wagner force

Yevgeny Prigozhin accuses Russia’s defence minister and chief of general staff of depriving his fighters of munitions

Evening Standard

Russian mercenary boss accuses top army brass of 'treason', Moscow pushes back

Outspoken Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin launched two verbal attacks against top brass on Tuesday, accusing them of depriving his Wagner fighters of munitions in what he called a treasonous attempt to destroy his private military company.

Reuters

Russian officials are denying ammunition to Wagner fighters - group founder

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia's mercenary group Wagner, accused unspecified officials of deliberately denying his fighters sufficient ammunition as part of an ongoing rivalry between himself and parts of the Russian elite.

Reuters

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Russian defence chief keeps job despite Ukraine routs thanks to Putin

His army has made three humiliating retreats in Ukraine in the past year and nearly 200,000 of his men have been killed or wounded according to U.S. officials, but Russia's defence minister is still in a job thanks to President Vladimir Putin.

Reuters

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ABC News

Chechnya's Kadyrov: one day I plan my own mercenary group

Ramzan Kadyrov, the ally of President Vladimir Putin who leads Chechnya, said on Sunday that he one day planned to set up his own private military company in the style of Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group of mercenaries.

Reuters

Russia’s Wagner fighters suffer 30,000 casualties in Ukraine: US

The White House says 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in Ukraine since December were convicts.

Al Jazeera

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The Guardian - AU

Russia eyes Bakhmut's capture by April as NATO ramps up military equipment for Ukraine

Russia rains missiles across Ukraine, striking its largest oil refinery, Kyiv says, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicts the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would fall by April.

ABC News

Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, eyes Bakhmut capture in April

Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin says ‘bureaucracy’ has held Russia back and predicts Bakhmut will fall by April.

Al Jazeera

Kremlin denies issuing media with guidance to suppress mentions of mercenary boss

The Kremlin on Thursday denied it had issued state media with formal recommendations suggesting they stop mentioning the Wagner mercenary group or its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin after what looked like a leaked guidance document surfaced online.

Reuters

Russia surrounds Bakhmut as Ukraine sends in troops

What happened in the 51st week of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Al Jazeera

Mercenary blasts Russian military 'bureaucracy'

MOSCOW: The head of the mercenary group Wagner has admitted that Russia may need another two months to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, blaming the "monstrous bureaucracy" of the top brass for the slow gains.

Bangkok Post

Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich

Regulator investigating 40 alleged ‘Slapp’ cases, including action by firm on behalf of Russian oligarch who runs Wagner group

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy rules out giving up any territory to Putin in potential peace deal – as it happened

Ukraine’s president says conceding land would mean Russia would ‘keep coming back’

The Guardian - UK

Wagner mercenary group will ‘decrease’ as prisoner recruitment ends, says boss

Kremlin is said to be pushing back against private army and curbing influence of Yevgeny Prighozin

France 24

Israeli firm 'boasted' of meddling in more than 30 elections worldwide

An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.

Reuters

'Executed' Russian Wagner fighter shown unharmed in new video

A Russian mercenary shown on video this week ostensibly being executed for desertion by the Wagner private militia has appeared, unharmed, with Wagner's chief on another clip aired on Wednesday.

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The Guardian - AU

Ukraine ‘inflicting very serious losses’ on Russian troops in the east, says Ukrainian official – as it happened

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar says Russian attacks are constant

Reuters

Russia declares battlefield gains as Ukraine urges faster military aid

Russia said on Wednesday it had broken through two of Ukraine's fortified defence lines in the east and Kyiv spoke of relentless Russian attacks making it "difficult for us", as Western allies announced more military aid for Kyiv including artillery rounds.

The Independent UK

Who are the Wagner mercenaries and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

Reuters

Russia's Prigozhin admits links to what U.S. says was election-meddling troll farm

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said on Tuesday that he founded and financed and the Internet Research Agency, a company Washington says is a "troll farm" which meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's marine brigade of 5,000 men 'wiped out' in battle for Vuhledar

A unit of 5,000 Russian fighters were practically destroyed in the latest attempt to forcefully take the area of Vuhledar, Donetsk, in another humiliating defeat for Putin

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin pulls Wagner Group troops from Ukraine as Kremlin 'fears coup'

It is believed Wagner Group mercenaries - many of them convicted criminals - will be replaced by regular soldiers among as many as 300,000 new troops heading to war

Reuters

Kremlin moves to rein in Russian mercenary boss Prigozhin

His private army is pushing hard to give Russia a battlefield win in Ukraine, but mounting evidence suggests the Kremlin has moved to curb what it sees as the excessive political clout of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group.

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