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Close Putin’s confidant Prigozhin showed a photo of killed Wagner mercenaries, accusing Russian leadership of a lack of ammunition

Yevgeny Prigozhin is close to Putin’s confidant, managing Russian leading private military company Wagner, which recruited thousands of…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Donbas “republics” urge Moscow to openly send mercenaries to Ukraine’s east: Ukrainian MoD

Since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, Moscow has been pertinacious in its denial of the…

byYuri Zoria

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Russian Wagner mercenaries arrested in Belarus: ‘little green men’ scenario, fighters in transit, or other?

What happened… The Wagner Group arrived in Minsk on the night of July 24-25; each man carried a…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russian medics who took part in war against Ukraine complain about stolen combat bonuses

In the Russian city of Gukovo, located in the Rostov Oblast 5 km away from eastern Ukraine, healthcare…

byAlya Shandra

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War in Donbas

In Memoriam: Baba Masha, the civilian cyborg

“Today, Baba Masha has left her earthly place and entered heaven’s gate. Three days ago, I was with…

byChristine Chraibi

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War in Donbas

People living near demarcation line extremely worried about withdrawal of Ukrainian troops

“Ukraine has withdrawn its troops in Stanytsia Luhanska. Russia has not, and their military forces are still here.…

byCensor.net

An armed personnel carrier full of mercenaries from Russia in the Donbas, Ukraine (Image: inforesist.org)

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Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story

Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’

Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian troops in Aleppo, Syria (Image: Wikimedia)

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Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death squads, Pastukhov says

Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow dispatches even more ‘private military companies’ to Syria and Africa

Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian private military companies (Wagner, MAR, E.N.O.T Corp, Slavyansky korpus, Redut, and RSB) that have been instrumental in Putin's military aggression in Ukraine (Image: video screenshot / Radio Svoboda)

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Three largest Russian militant training facilities identified

After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where…

byPaul A. Goble

Unmarked trucks with Putin's so-called "little green men" - heavily-armed Russian cadres military troops hiding their identities and without insignia during the invasion into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in February 2014.

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Putin seized Crimea with regular army but outsourced action in Donbas

There are many differences between the Russian seizure of Crimea and Russian actions in the Donbas, but perhaps…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow preparing to replace its forces in Donbas with ‘private’ military ones, Kyiv analyst suggests

The Russian State Duma will soon be taking up draft legislation regularizing the status of nominally “private” military…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine names over 150 mercenaries from “Putin’s private army” fighting in Ukraine and Syria

Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas SBU Chief of Stuff Ihor Huskov…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russia recruited over 5,000 mercenaries to fight in its wars abroad, SBU says

PMC “Wagner” has been in existence for several years. Hundreds of their mercenaries have fought in Ukraine. The…

byRadio Liberty

Image: Petr Sarukhanov / novayagazeta.ru

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‘Donbas in Gorky Park’ – Moscow’s violence in Ukraine is coming back to haunt Russia

The violence Moscow “exported” to Ukraine and other parts of what the Kremlin claims are parts of “the…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian mercenaries drive on an armoured personnel carrier in Slaviansk, Ukraine

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Middle Volga Muslim fighters for ‘Russian world’ in Donbas divided on its meaning, Suleymanov says

Muslims from Russia’s Middle Volga region who went to fight for the “DNR” and “LNR” in Ukraine were…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian diplomats Chisinau expelled reportedly recruited Gagauz to fight in Ukraine

The identification of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who fought against Kyiv in the first months of Moscow’s war in…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian mercenaries taking photographs with personal items found among the debris at the crash site of MH17 downed by a Russian BUK surface-to-air missile in Russia-occupied east Ukraine

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Banditry from Russia-occupied Donbas rapidly spreading back across Russia, Babchenko says

Russia is rapidly descending into “a swamp of illegality and unconstrained banditry” in large measure because those features…

byPaul A. Goble

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‘Spetsnaz of the USSR’ – the new Russian irregulars in Syria now fighting for Assad

The Syrian military does not have enough personnel to simultaneously launch major attacks, suppress militants, and garrison cities…

byPaul A. Goble