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In extraordinary video tirade, Yevgeny Prigozhin attacks defence minister and chief of armed forces

Whoever wins Turkey's elections this month, the NATO-member is expected to maintain cordial relations with Russia that have already endured several years of dramatic change in Ankara's foreign policy.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russian paramilitary group Wagner, on Friday threatened to pull his fighters from the front line in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine starting May 10, saying ammunition shortages meant they faced "senseless death". Russia has incurred significant losses in Bakhmut since starting its offensive there in August. Follow…

An advisor to Ukraine’s defence minister tells The Independent that announcement is ‘extraordinary’ and ‘hysterical’

The head of Vladimir Putin’s Wagner Group “private army” threatened on Friday to pull his troops out of the eastern town of Bakhmut after a ferocious bust-up with Russian army chiefs.

Ukrainian Oleksandr Marikovsky was holding his country's flag in the Turkish capital Ankara and was poised to have his photo taken just as a Russian MP tore it from his hands

Russia launched its biggest swarm of drones for months against Ukraine on Monday, the eve of Russia's May 9 Victory Day holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany, which Kyiv marked a day earlier in a new break with Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has a history of dramatic statements, says troops will leave fiercely contested city on 10 May

VOLODYMYR Zelenskyy has said he is convinced that Russian president Vladimir Putin will face an international war crimes court when Ukraine wins the…

Dmitry Rogozin - also a former deputy prime minister who is now close to the frontline - made clear Moscow is facing war defeat unless the dictator unleashes his atomic weapons

Prigozhin threatens to pull Wagner troops out of Bakhmut; Kyiv downs own drone after it lost control