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US is weighing a terrorism label for Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is weighing whether to label Russia’s Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization, two people familiar with the matter said, as part of efforts to handicap the privately owned military company’s involvement in Ukraine and its growing presence in Africa.

The Times of India

Russia's Prigozhin says Zambian student who died in Ukraine was fighting with Wagner

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday said a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy says Kyiv residents ‘need more protection’ as temperature drops – as it happened

Ukraine’s president calls on local government officials to do more as power cuts leave population vulnerable to the elements

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Russian shelling kills 15 in Kherson

KYIV: Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed 15 civilians on Friday, officials said, as engineers across the country sought to restore heat, water and power to major cities.

Bangkok Post

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 276 of the invasion

More than 6m Ukrainian households still without power; EU to boost efforts to restore electricity and heating; Hungarian president to meet Zelenskiy

The Guardian - AU

Vladimir Putin orders prisoners to fight in Ukraine war or face brutal punishments

Lags were previously offered freedom deals if they joined the invasion, but the notorious Wagner Group of mercenaries has switched to more brutal recruitment tactics

Daily Mirror

How two Australian soldiers became unwitting poster boys for Russian mercenary Wagner Group's Ukraine recruitment drive

On a spring day in 2013, two Australian soldiers had their photograph taken in Afghanistan. Now the photo has resurfaced in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — all without the soldiers' knowledge.

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Emmanuel Macron accuses Russia of feeding disinformation in Africa

French president says Moscow is pursuing ‘predatory project’ to spread influence in African countries

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

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

Sledgehammer execution of Russian mercenary who defected to Ukraine shown in video

Russia's Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a former mercenary who was filmed being executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after changing sides in the Ukraine war was a traitor.

Reuters

What are pro-Kremlin Russians saying about the ‘loss’ of Kherson?

While some hawks accept the decision to withdraw, others are furious about the Russian military’s defeat.

Al Jazeera

What's 'Putin's chef' cooking up with talk on US meddling?

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a low profile over the years, but he has been increasingly in the spotlight recently

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Reuters

Russia's war hawks rally behind decision to abandon Ukrainian city of Kherson

Russia's leading war hawks on Wednesday swiftly rallied behind the decision to abandon the Ukrainian city of Kherson, putting a brave face on one of Moscow's most humiliating retreats in nearly nine months of war.

The Independent UK

Russia say US midterms won’t improve ‘bad’ relations with Washington

‘Relations still are, and will remain, bad,’ the Kremlin says

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Heated Midterms Determine the Course of the Country

Tens of millions of US citizens head to the polls on Tuesday to choose their representatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives in midterms between Democrats and Republicans, the results of which will determine the course of the country. The ghost of elections' past looms over the polls…

Evening Standard

Russia building ‘dragon’s teeth’ defences near Mariupol as they prepare for Ukraine counter attack, says UK

A BBC Panorama investigation alleges 1,500 new graves have been dug at a mass burial site near Mariupol

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The Guardian - US

We shouldn’t take Prigozhin’s admission of US election interference at face value

Analysis: By saying he is continuing to interfere he appears to be trying to shape the idea that results can’t be trusted

Salon

Putin's chef: We're meddling in election

"Carefully, accurately, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do," said Yevgeny Prigozhin

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's 'chef' admits interfering in US elections ahead of Tuesday's midterms

Ahead of the midterm elections tomorrow, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin confessed for the first time to interfering with American democracy "carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way"

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia’s Prigozhin Admits Interfering in US Elections

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in US elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics. In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's…

Axios

Close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin admits to interfering in U.S. elections

"We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere."

The Independent UK

Putin-linked businessman admits to US election meddling

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted that he interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so

The Independent UK

Key Putin ally admits Russia is interfering in US elections and ‘will continue to interfere’

‘During our pinpoint operations, we will remove both kidneys and the liver at once,’ ‘Putin’s chef’ says

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