The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Russian mercenaries were the only element of Moscow’s forces making any progress in the 55th week of the war in Ukraine.

The founder and leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been touted as someone who could pose a political challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Once a key battlefield ally, in recent days Prigozhin has publicly lamented losing his direct line to the Kremlin. Wagner fighters are not…

The head of the Wagner group said there had been “resistance” among the Russian authorities to deploy women in the war zone, but a new report suggests women are now being deployed

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Russian fighter jet collides with US drone over Black Sea; one person killed and three injured in Kramatorsk shelling

Media reports suggest Chinese President Xi Jinping may visit Russia and speak with the Ukrainian president.

Tensions between the Russian ministry of defence and the rebel Wagner group over the city of Bakhmut have reached to “boiling point” as some 520 Russian troops were reported killed in Bakhmut in one day’s fighting

Senior UN officials hosted Russian envoys in Geneva on Monday in a bid to extend an export agreement amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and prevent a potential new spike in world food prices. The United Nations and Türkiye brokered a deal between the two warring countries in July that allows…

Ukrainian general says it is using opportunity to kill as many Russian troops as possible and wear down its reserves