The Latest Breaking News from Wagner Group

The Wagner leader is becoming a recognisable public figure in Russia and has staked out a niche among conservatives.

Western officials estimate Wagner Group and Russia’s regular army was hit with 60,000 casualties in battle for Bakhmut

Silence proves worse than the noise of battle for Russian morale as Ukraine appears to attack Russia.

A senior Ukrainian security official has said the country is ready to launch a counter-offensive against Russian forces.

Wagner Group forces have begun to withdraw from the city of Bakhmut and will likely focus on other offensive operations in the Donbas region, according to British intelligence chiefs.

The U.S. on Thursday said Russian mercenary force Wagner Group may be working through Mali and other countries to hide its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine, and accused it of supplying a Sudanese paramilitary with surface-to-air missiles.

After the best part of a year, Russia has claimed victory in the meat-grinder that was the Battle of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east. But the battle achieved virtually none of Russia’s original strategic objectives and came at a cost of Russian lives, estimated by Wagner Group boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, as…

The Wagner army is believed to have suffered 20,000 casualties in battle for Ukrainian city

Yevgeny Prigozhin said about 20 per cent of the 50,000 Russian prisoners recruited to fight in the 15-month war died in the eastern Ukrainian city

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

It is still unclear whether the months-long battle for control of Bakhmut has ended, with claims by Moscow that the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group had finally captured the city being countered by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.