His name was on the manifest of a passenger plane that crashed in Russia. Just two months ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin was leading a column of his Wagner mercenaries toward Moscow in what the Kremlin called an insurrection.
The video, shared on Telegram channels affiliated with the Wagner Group, is the first video address Prigozhin has shared since he marched his mercenaries towards Moscow in late June. Grainy footage, whichappeared to show Prigozhin welcoming his mercenaries to Belarus, was shared in ...
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Instead Putin made a deal that saw an end to the mutiny in exchange for an amnesty for Prigozhin and his mercenaries and permission for them to move to Belarus. Now many are suggesting the punishment has finally come. The Institute for the Study of War argue...
Prigozhin was thought to have been inBelarussince 24 June after he led the failed mutiny against the Kremlin which saw his Wagner mercenaries march on Moscow. Large numbers of Wagner fighters were said to have also been absorbed into the Russian military ...
but on Thursday he told international reporters that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg and could also travel to Moscow if he so wishes, while Wagner's troops were in their camps. He did not specify the location of the camps, but Prigozhin's mercenaries fought alongside Rus...
The owner of theWagner Group, a private mercenary army,made his most direct challenge to the Kremlin yet on Friday, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia's defense minister. The security services reacted immediately by calling for the arrest of its leader, Yevgeny Pri...
Western countries and United Nations experts have accused Wagner Group mercenaries of committing numerous human rights abuses throughout Africa, including in the Central African Republic, Libya, and Mali. In December 2021,the European Union accusedthe group of “serious human rig...
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Russian mercenaries boarding a helicopter in northern Mali© AP The overseas mercenary and propaganda operations of the Wagner Group in support of dictators and military strongmen have provided the Kremlin with a deniable foreign policy tool while at the same time helping enrich its founder. ...