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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.

Reuters

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

Evening Standard

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.

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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.

Reuters

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Al Jazeera

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…

France 24

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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.

Reuters

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 Guardian - AU

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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Reuters

Former Wagner Group commander seeking asylum in Norway

Andrey Medvedev, 26, deserted after reportedly witnessing war crimes in Ukraine and is willing to reveal what he saw, his lawyer says

The Guardian - UK

Former Wagner Commander Seeks Asylum in Norway after Fleeing Russia

A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who had fought in Ukraine said he has fled to Norway and is seeking asylum after deserting in fear for his life. Andrei Medvedev, who joined the group on July 6 2022 with a four-month contract, said in a video posted by…

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Former Wagner commander seeks asylum in Norway after fleeing Russia

A former commander of Russia's Wagner mercenary group who had fought in Ukraine said he has fled to Norway and is seeking asylum after deserting in fear for his life.

The Independent UK

Wagner mercenary claims to have dodged rifle fire and tracker dogs in high-stakes escape into Norway

Human rights group hopes that the individual will testify against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin about the group’s actions

The Guardian - AU

UK confirms it will send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine and pressures Germany to increase support – as it happened

UK defence secretary says west is accelerating efforts to support Ukraine but urges Germany to permit supply of Leopard tanks

Reuters

Kremlin denies conflict between Wagner and defence ministry

The Kremlin on Monday denied any conflict between the Defence Ministry and the Wagner mercenary group fighting for Russia in Ukraine, calling it an invention of the media.

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Daily Mirror

Russia 'publicly executing' soldiers who defy Vladimir Putin's orders in Ukraine

Capture Russians from the Wagner group, which has murderers, rapists and drug dealers on its front line, have come confessed to their Ukrainian captors they face execution by their own leaders

Wales Online

The selfless Welsh couple helping to drive ambulances to Ukraine

Clare-Anna and her husband Dai are part of a group taking generators and other aid out to Ukraine

Reuters

Russia's Prigozhin boasts of Wagner prowess amid wrangling with defence establishment

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, boasted of his forces' prowess on Saturday amid a simmering rivalry with the defence ministry over who should get credit for leading Russia's assault on the Ukrainian town of Soledar.

The Independent UK

Violence soars in Mali in the year after Russians arrive

Western officials say violence against civilians in Mali has risen in the year since hundreds of Russian mercenaries have started working alongside the West African country's armed forces to stem a decade-long insurgency by Islamic extremists

Al Jazeera

Zelenskyy mocks Russian forces fighting for ‘credit’ over Soledar

Head of the Wagner mercenary group had accused Russia’s military establishment of trying to ‘steal victory’ in Soledar.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin ‘will nominate his heir this year and retire to avoid revolution’

The Russian president reportedly fears being ousted by the head of a private army called the 'Wagner Group' and plans to hand over power and take refuge in his remote mansion

ABC News

Why the salt mines of Soledar, a 'network of underground cities', are prized by Russian mercenaries

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the landscape around Soledar is covered in Russian corpses. The head of Russia's feared Wagner Group calls neighbouring Bakhmut a "meat grinder". So why do the Russians keep coming?

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