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Bakhmut has exposed an ugly, personal feud between the Russian Defense Ministry and ‘Putin’s chef.’
For nearly a year, Russia has waged a vicious battle to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, seeking a gainafter months of embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield. Although the city has been essentially razed, seizing it and ending the longest ...
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Russia’s Mercenary Chief Prepares Ground for a Political Advance
Yevgeny Prigozhin says his Wagner force will shrink when the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is done. Now he’s maneuvering on the home front, for the favor of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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Wagner Group Chief Accuses Russian Military Command of Treason
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group accused the country’s defense minister and its highest-ranking general of treason on Tuesday, intensifying the most high-profile dispute in the Russian forces since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began ...
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‘Our Losses Were Gigantic’: Life in a Sacrificial Russian Assault Wave
Poorly trained Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine describe being used as cannon fodder by commanders throwing waves of bodies into an assault.
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Wagner Founder Has Putin’s Support, but the Kremlin’s Side-Eye
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the once secretive tycoon, is confounding Moscow’s Kremlin-allied elite by starting to dabble in politics alongside waging war in Ukraine.
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Wagner, the Russian mercenary group, says it has stopped recruiting prisoners.
The founder of the Kremlin-affiliated Wagner mercenary group, known for its ruthless tactics and harsh discipline, said on Thursday that it would no longer recruit fighters in Russian prisons. That would end a practice that has raised criticism from ...
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Wagner Group May Have Committed War Crimes in Mali, U.N. Experts Say
Persistent reports point to “horrific executions” and other atrocities possibly committed by the Kremlin-affiliated mercenary force and the Malian military, according to human rights experts.
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Wagner Group May Have Committed War Crimes in Mali, U.N. Experts Say
Persistent reports point to “horrific executions” and other atrocities possibly committed by the Kremlin-affiliated mercenary force and the Malian military, according to human rights experts.
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Russian Mercenaries Are Destabilizing Africa
One of the groups that have risen to international prominence (or infamy) with the invasion of Ukraine is Wagner, a Kremlin-backed mercenary outfit that regularly employs former criminals. In Ukraine, they often fight when conventional Russian Army ...
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‘Very Dangerous People’: Russia’s Convict Fighters Are Heading Home
Tens of thousands of inmates have joined a mercenary group fighting with the Kremlin’s decimated forces in Ukraine. Some of them are returning to civilian life with military training and, in many cases, battlefield traumas.