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Russia's Wagner to send Kyiv bodies of soldiers killed in Soledar - report

The private Russian military group Wagner plans to send the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in fighting in the captured town of Soledar to territory held by Ukraine, a website linked to the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin reported on Saturday.

Reuters

Russia's Wagner chief writes to White House over new U.S. sanctions

The head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner published on Saturday a short letter to the White House asking what crime his company was accused of, after Washington announced new sanctions on the group.

Reuters

Russian Wagner Group using ‘North Korea for munitions supplies,’ White House says

North Korea has repeatedly denied assisting Russia

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Russian army announces new offensive in Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

Announcement from Russian army follows heavy shelling in the region overnight

The Guardian - AU

US to designate Wagner a transnational criminal organisation

The U.S. Treasury Department will impose additional sanctions on the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, that has been aiding Russia's military in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

France 24

US to designate Wagner mercenary force a crime organisation

The Wagner Group has an estimated 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of them drawn from Russian prisons.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 332 of the invasion

Russia claims to have captured village near Bakhmut; Germany declines to take decision on supplying Ukraine with tanks

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U.S. to designate Russia's Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization

It comes in part in response to North Korean weapon shipments to the mercenary group, the White House said.

Axios

Russia's Wagner group denies recruiting Serbs to fight in Ukraine

Russia's Wagner paramilitary group on Friday denied it was recruiting Serbs to fight in Ukraine, a day after activists filed criminal complaints against the organisation in Belgrade.

Reuters

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Kyiv hopes western tanks could provide tactical breakthrough; dozens die in Dnipro attack; Germany gets a new defence minister

The Guardian - AU

Treasury to designate Wagner transnational criminal group

The U.S. Treasury Department will impose additional sanctions on the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, that has been aiding Russia’s military in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

US designates Russia’s Wagner Group as ‘transnational criminal organisation’

The US government has designated the Russian private military contractor known as the Wagner Group as a “transnational criminal organization,” giving the notorious mercenary outfit the same status as international drug cartels and human trafficking organisations under US law.

The Independent UK

U.S. to impose new sanctions against Russia's Wagner private military group

The United States will impose additional sanctions next week against Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which U.S. officials say has been helping Russia's military in the Ukraine war, the White House said on Friday.

Reuters

Russian politician poses with sledgehammer in tribute to Wagner mercenaries

A senior Russian politician on Friday published a picture of himself clutching a sledgehammer given to him by the Wagner mercenary group, a tool it has adopted as a symbol of vengeance since one was used to murder a Wagner defector last year.

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Evening Standard

Wagner Group: Putin’s ‘private army’ has up to 50,000 troops fighting in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

Military sources say the group is vying with the Russian regular army for supremacy in Putin’s chain of command

Reuters

Russian proxy forces claim capture of Klishchiivka near Ukraine's Bakhmut

Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine said on Friday that Russian forces had had taken control of Klishchiivka, a small settlement south of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.

Reuters

Russia's Wagner boss heralds Bakhmut area advances, warns victory still distant

The founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Thursday that his forces had taken the village of Klishchiivka, on the edge of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but said that Ukrainian forces could not be forced from Bakhmut swiftly.

Daily Mirror

Russian army deserter, 31, shot dead by Vladimir Putin marksman after fleeing to see wife

Dmitry Perov's body was found in a snowy field in the village of Novouglyanka in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia. The army deserter reportedly fled his military base in Ukraine to be reunited with his wife

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Al Jazeera

Russia forces push forward despite ‘colossal losses’

A retreat, a missile blitz and a helicopter crash were the low points of a horrible 47th week of the war for Ukraine.

France 24

France's ex-president Hollande: Wagner Group operating as ‘neo-colonialists’ in Mali

France's former president François Hollande granted an interview to FRANCE 24 and RFI on Wednesday, some 10 years after launching Operation Serval, which ousted armed rebels and Islamist militants from northern Mali. Hollande defended the record of French military operations in the Sahel region and expressed regret at the arrival…

Reuters

Wagner chief Prigozhin attacks Putin administration over failure to block YouTube

The increasingly prominent head of the Russian private military group Wagner on Wednesday took aim at the Kremlin administration for failing to block the U.S.-owned video sharing platform YouTube.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 328 of the invasion

Civilian death toll passes 7,000; Ukrainian official offers resignation over Dnipro comments

The Independent UK

Norway wants to talk to asylum-seeker from Wagner Group

A Norwegian police unit that investigates war crimes wants to talk to a Russian asylum-seeker man who reportedly is a former high-ranking member of the private Russian military contractor Wagner Group

The Guardian - UK

Former Wagner Group commander who fled to Norway feared for his life

Andrey Medvedev told the Guardian he had seen summary executions of mercenary group’s Russian fighters

Reuters

Serbia asks Russia to end recruitment of its people for Ukraine war

Russia should halt its efforts to recruit Serbs to fight alongside its Wagner paramilitary group in Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said.

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