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The Latest Breaking News from Yevgeny Nuzhin

Wagner mercenary group will ‘decrease’ as prisoner recruitment ends, says boss

Kremlin is said to be pushing back against private army and curbing influence of Yevgeny Prighozin

The Guardian - UK

Why Russia lionises inmates fighting in Ukraine

The Kremlin has lauded mercenaries with the powerful private Wagner Group, of which thousands are ex-prisoners.

Al Jazeera

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

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Ukraine rejects Putin’s 36-hour ceasefire for Orthodox Christmas

Kyiv says Moscow’s declaration of truce, after Russian president cited appeal from patriarch, is ‘hypocrisy’

The Guardian - UK

Wagner denies involvement after mercenary killed in Ukraine

Yevgeny Prigozhin accuses US of executing Yevgenny Nuzhin, who reportedly switched sides to join Ukrainian forces.

Al Jazeera

Sledgehammer killing of Wagner Group conscript ‘warning to defectors’ say western officials

Footage of former prisoner Yevgeny Nuzhin being hit with a sledgehammer was posted on a telegram account linked to the Wagner Group this week

Evening Standard

Fears war in Ukraine will 'grind' on through next year despite weapons shortages

Western officials believe winter freezes will cause more battlefield casualties, while the brutal mercenary unit The Wagner Group is fast becoming part of Vladimir Putin's regular military

Daily Mirror

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Family ‘horrified’ by video of sledgehammer killing of Wagner Group defector

Kremlin-linked private military group posted video of apparent execution in Russia of Yevgeny Nuzhin

The Guardian - UK

Traumatised sons hit out at Vladimir Putin's 'fascists' who sledgehammered dad to death

Ilya and Nikita Nuzhin have said that their father was "killed like an animal" after horrific footage showed Yevgeny Nuzhin being murdered by Russian private army Wagner

Daily Mirror

Convicted murderer hired by Vladimir Putin to fight Ukraine surrenders and defects

Yevgeny Nuhzin, who was sentenced to 24 years in jail after killing someone in 1999, is reportedly one of thousands of prisoners released from prison to fight for Russia's struggling armed forces

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