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Ukraine’s foreign minister also says critics of the offensive’s slow progress should ‘shut up’

Where were you when you heard that Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aircraft had crashed and he was presumed dead? For Ukraine watchers it was something of a surreal JFK moment. And, like the Zapruder tape, the video footage of the Russian mercenary group commander’s Embraer Legacy 600 private jet…

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow

Pope Francis’s video speech to the All-Russian Meeting of Catholic Youth in St Petersburg, urging them to “not forget their heritage” has caused quite a stir. What struck a bitter chord internationally – and especially in Ukraine – about the remarks he delivered on August 25 was not so much…

Russia is reported to have deployed nuclear weapons in Belarus, a step that was much telegraphed earlier this year and recently confirmed by Poland. This move has caused concern in neighbouring countries and has affected security arrangements in Europe.

Wagner boss apparently seen in Africa saying ‘everything’s fine’ as he addressed rumours about wellbeing

Dmitry Utkin, cofounder and military commander of the Wagner Group, was buried Thursday in a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery near Moscow after dying in a plane crash that also killed his boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin. The ceremony came as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met his Russian counterpart Sergei…

As the war enters its 554th day, these are the main developments.

Former US Marine seen in video clips inside IK-17, a remote maximum-security penal colony 300 miles east of Moscow

White House says Pyongyang should ‘cease its arms negotiations’ with Moscow amid escalating tensions with Washington.

Kremlin says assault ‘will not go unpunished’, a sign that the attack was disruptive