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Rivalry between Russia’s Defense Ministry and Wagner key in termination of prisoner recruitment scheme – British intelligence

Rivalry between the leader of the Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Defense Ministry was…

byAlya Shandra

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Russia’s state-run corporation to create another military company like Wagner – Ukraine’s Intel

Ukraine’s Intelligence leaked the order of Russia’s government signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail…

bySerge Havrylets

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Norwegian paramedics get wounded by Russian shelling in Bakhmut

Two Norwegian volunteer paramedics Sander Sørsveen Trelvik and Simon Johnsen got wounded by the Russian shelling in Bakhmut…

bySerge Havrylets

wagner group prisoner recruitment decline

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Wagner Group’s prisoner recruitment on decline due to elite rivalry – British Intelligence

According to the intelligence report published on Twitter by the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom of…

byKate Ryabchiy

A chevron of Wagner Group, a unit of Russian military intelligence (fka GRU) posing as a private military company used to conduct combat operations abroad as part of Russia's hybrid warfare.

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US designates Russia’s Wagner group a transnational criminal organization

On 26 January, the US Treasury Department introduced new sanctions against the Russian mercenary group Wagner and officially…

bySerge Havrylets

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Former Wagner Group commander who fled to Norway arrested by police – The Guardian

Andrey Medvedev, a commander of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who recently fled to Norway after months of fighting…

byOlena Mukhina

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

Russia should halt its efforts to recruit Serbs to fight alongside its Wagner paramilitary group in Ukraine, Serbian…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Analysis

Battle of Soledar: how can Ukraine stop the Russian advance?

Soledar, a small town of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, has become the hottest spot on the war…

bySerge Havrylets

british volunteers missing ukraine soledar 6 january

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Wagner PMC claims one of two Britons missing in Ukraine found dead

The Human Rights Centre ZMINA (NGO) reports that the body of one of the two missing British volunteers,…

byKate Ryabchiy

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Russia hasn’t captured entire Soledar despite several claims that city has fallen – ISW

Several Russian sources claimed that Wagner Group forces advanced into the west of Soledar on January 10 (sources:…

byYuri Zoria

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Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in Bakhmut – British Intelligence

Despite the increased pressure on Bakhmut (Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine), Russia is unlikely to envelop the town, according…

bySerge Havrylets

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Putin’s crony Prigozhin wants control over salt and gypsum mines around Bakhmut – Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ally Evgeny Prigozhin, who is the owner of the private Russian military company Wagner…

bySerge Havrylets

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US says Russia’s Wagner Group bought North Korean weapons for Ukraine war – Reuters

The private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to…

byYuri Zoria

The military casualty ID tag (aka "dog tag") taken from a killed Russian "Wagner" private military company solder in Ukraine. Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

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Prigozhin continued efforts to legitimize his Wagner Group as a parastatal armed force – ISW

Prigozhin complained on December 18 that the local St. Petersburg authorities refused to bury a Wagner Group fighter…

byThink Tank

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Wagner Group treats convict-recruits as expendable to conserve experienced commanders – British intel

The intelligence update by the British Defense Ministry suggests that Russia’s Wagner group uses its convict-recruits as cannon…

byYuri Zoria

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HIMARS destroyed base of Russian Wagner mercenaries in Luhansk oblast’s occupied Kadiivka

Explosion in occupied Kadiyivka in Ukraine’s easternmost Luhansk Oblast destroyed a hotel where “many Wagner troops,” were located,…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Bakhmut direction is tough because of Wagner PMC “competition” with regular Russian army – Ukrainian servicewoman

One of the toughest fightings of Russo-Ukrainian war are currently ongoing in the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk…

byOrysia Hrudka

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Evgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Medvedev

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Analysis

From decade in prison to “Putin’s chef”: who is Wagner CEO Evgeny Prigozhin

All countries have mafia — but the Russian mafia has a country, a joke goes. Evgeny (Yevgeniy) Prigozhin,…

byZarina Zabrisky

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US senators call to designate Russian Wagner Group as a terrorist organization

US Senators Roger Wicker and Ben Cardin introduced the act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Secretary of…

byOrysia Hrudka

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UK sanctions Russian officials behind mobilization, prisoner recruitment into Wagner PMC

On 30 November, the UK sanctioned Russian officials behind the mobilization of Russians for war, as well as…

byAlya Shandra