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Putin giving Russian National Guard heavy weaponry to ‘ensure regime security’ after Wagner mutiny, says UK

Ministry of Defence in London believes the Rosgvardia is being better equipped to deal with ‘internal security threats’

Evening Standard

Top Russian General Surovikin quizzed over mutiny challenging Putin’s rule

Investigators have questioned one of Russia’s top generals about the failed mutiny that presented the greatest challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s quarter-century rule.

Tribune News Service

Putin admits Moscow paid Wagner mercenaries £800m in wages in a year – and that his forces ‘stopped civil war’

Russian president says mercenary group was funded by the state, after years of denials, as group’s leader arrives in Belarus as part of deal that ended mutiny

The Independent UK

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Russian National Guard general accused of taking large bribes

Russian military investigators launched a criminal case on Monday against Major General Vadim Dragomiretsky, deputy commander of the central district of Russia's National Guard, after he was accused of receiving large sums in bribes, a senior lawmaker said.

Reuters

Grimacing Vladimir Putin tightly grips desk in meeting with most trusted general

The surreal scene shows a Kremlin meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Viktor Zolotov, 68, who is director of the Russian National Guard and has lost thousands of his men in the war

Daily Mirror

Ukraine war: inside the complex web of Russia's warring intelligence agencies

Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence branch of the FSB, which is the Russian security service. They were allegedly the main proponents of the assumption that Ukraine would swiftly collapse, which…

The Conversation

Seven signs Russia is losing will to wage Ukraine war after 'change of target'

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukraine president, believes Russian troops are suffering in the face of a fierce counter-attack from the defending forces, with morale among the Kremlin's troops said to be lo

Daily Mirror

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Top Putin ally says Ukraine war has been slower than expected

One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies said Russia's military operation in Ukraine had not all gone as quickly as the Kremlin had wanted, the strongest public acknowledgement yet from Moscow that things were not going to plan.

Reuters

Putin's inner circle - inside the lives of the wealthy oligarchs being targeted by UK

Critics have demanded UK sanctions are tougher as sanctioned oligarchs could transfer assets to their children - here we take a look at Vladimir Putin's inner circle

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