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‘Life can end suddenly here’: Inside Bakhmut, the city being bombed to ruins by Russia’s forces

The Wagner Group has fought on behalf of the Kremlin in a range of arenas including Syria, Libya, central Africa and, most recently, in the Sahel, where its soldiers replaced French forces in Mali, Kim Sengupta reports

The Independent UK

Ukraine recap: 'kamikaze' drone attacks on civilian infrastructure show Putin is moving closer to total war

Having suffered several weeks of setbacks in the field, Russia appears to have renewed its assaults on Ukraine’s major cities, mainly via missile and drone attacks. Despite protestations to the contrary from Kremlin ally Iran, there is growing evidence that Russia is using large numbers of Iranian drones. This includes…

The Conversation

Russian soldier moans about being used as 'canon fodder' sent to the slaughter

The captured Russian convict-turned soldier claims a Wagner Group commander sent the former inmates to "scout" ahead as the main battalion waited in the wings

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Russian role in Burkina Faso crisis comes under scrutiny

Questions are swirling in Burkina Faso about what role Russia may have played in the West African nation's second coup this year

The Independent UK

Russia, under Pressure in Southern Ukraine, Captures Villages in East

Russian-backed forces have made some advances in eastern Ukraine, Britain said on Friday, even as Moscow's hold weakens in the south, where a Russian-installed official has advised residents to flee a region Russia claims to have annexed. A British intelligence update said forces led by the private Russian military company…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin’s private army make ‘tactical gains’ in Ukraine but Russia still facing ‘severe shortages’ of munitions

Vladimir Putin's private army has made some “tactical gains" in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Friday, but the Russian Army as a whole is undermined by "severe shortages" of munitions and manpower.

Evening Standard

Burkina Faso coup raises questions about growing Russian involvement in west Africa

As if fighting in what – for now, at least – appears to be a losing battle in Ukraine weren’t enough, the Wagner Group, a private army of Russian mercenaries commanded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Vladimir Putin, is heavily committed in a range of conflicts and security…

The Conversation

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U.S. accuses Russia of exploiting Africa resources to fund Ukraine war

The United States accused Russian mercenaries on Thursday of exploiting natural resources in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow's war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as "anti-Russian rage."

Reuters

Libel Lawsuit by Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Against The Intercept Rejected

A federal court held that Prince was a public figure, and hadn't offered enough plausible allegations that the defendants knew the statements were false or likely false (the so-called "actual malice" showing).

Reason

In the Ukraine war, a shadowy key player emerges: Russia’s private army of mercenaries

BERLIN — As Russia suffers one devastating military setback after another in Ukraine, a key player in the conflict is stepping out of the shadows: the private army known as the Wagner Group.

Los Angeles Times

Pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi militia inciting the torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners

Task Force Rusich, linked to the Wagner Group, advises its fighters not to report the capture of Ukrainians to Russian commanders

The Guardian - UK

Feared Wagner commander killed in Ukraine as Russia's heavy losses continue

Wagner Group commander Aleksei Nagin and secret service officer Aleksei Katerinichev have been killed in Ukraine in two further blows for Vladimir Putin's invasion

Daily Mirror

Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin admits owning Wagner mercenary force

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin says he is ‘proud’ of founding Wagner Group staffed by Russian war veterans.

Al Jazeera

Russia's Prigozhin admits link to Wagner mercenaries for first time

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that he had founded the Wagner Group private military company in 2014, the first public confirmation of a link he has previously denied and sued journalists for reporting.

Reuters

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Al Jazeera

At UN, Mali army-appointed PM slams France, praises Russia ties

Abdoulaye Maiga lashes out at the former colonial ruler, the UN as he praised the ‘exemplary’ cooperation with Russia.

Daily Mirror

Cannibal jailed after headless body fell from car joins Vladimir Putin’s kill squad

Yegor Komarov said he "nibbled to just take a taste" after a headless and repeatedly stabbed corpse fell out of his car when he crashed his Mitsubishi into a fence in St Petersburg, Russia

Reuters

Russia's Wagner trying to recruit over 1,500 felons for Ukraine war -U.S. official

The Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, is trying to recruit over 1,500 convicted felons to take part in Russia's war in Ukraine, but many are refusing to join, a senior U.S. defense official said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Video reveals how Russian mercenaries recruit inmates for Ukraine war

In a video that emerged Tuesday, the de facto leader of a Russian mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group is seen promising convicts release from prison in return for a six-month combat tour in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Tribune News Service

Commentary: A weakened Putin is no use to Russia

As Ukrainian troops probe Russian defenses along the entire front and only the Wagner Group mercenaries continue a small-scale offensive operation in the Donetsk region, the initiative in the Russo-Ukrainian war is firmly in the hands of the invaded, not the invader. While that can still change, perhaps more than…

Daily Mirror

Hardened Russian prisoners offered freedom for six months fighting in Ukraine

The leader of infamous Wagner group, who has close ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been filmed telling hardened criminals that if they join the fight in Ukraine they could be freed after six months

Evening Standard

Russian inmates ‘told they’ll be freed if they survive six-months on Ukraine frontline’

Leaked footage shows the founder of Russia’s Wagner Group attempting to recruit prisoners

The Conversation

Russia's reliance on mercenaries in Ukraine points to the weakness of its military – and Putin's strategy of deflecting blame

Ukrainian forces are gaining ground in the war against Russia. Since early September 2022, they have launched a massive counteroffensive in Ukraine’s northeast region of Kharkiv, reclaiming large swaths of territory.

France 24

Central African Republic: Under Russian influence

Since 2018, mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group, an effective secret army of the Kremlin, have been active in Central African Republic. They protect the impoverished country's regime in exchange for valuable mineral resources and deploy a massive propaganda campaign to cover up the massacres, rapes and torture they are accused…

Daily Mirror

Russian commanders facing large-scale mutiny as regiment refuses to fight and Moscow loses ground

Spooks from Moscow’s feared GRU and FSB intelligence agencies are trying to quell a rebellion by soldiers of the 127th Regiment of the First Army Corps for a second time

Daily Mirror

Putin’s private army HQ 'blown up after online post gives away secret location'

The headquarters of Vladimir Putin's state-backed Wagner Group mercenary fighters was reportedly blown up leaving around 100 dead after a bungling Russian propagandist revealed the location online

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