The businessman behind the private military company has been accused of “rebellion” against Moscow The Wagner private military company led by Evgeny Prigozhin launched an insurrection in Russia that began on Friday evening. The armed contractors managed to seize an army headquarters in the south...
The group has been a key piece of Russia's strategy in Ukraine, with Wagner forces being used tohold cities like Bakhmut. Prigozhin had sharply criticized Russian military leaders for weeks before the rebellion calling the top brass incompetent, even traitorous. Tension between Russ...
Condemning the actions of one-time allyPrigozhin, who wasleading a rebellion to oust Russia's defence minister, Vladimir Putin branded the mercenary boss's actions a "stab in the back" to the country's soldiers and people. But Prigozhin denied a betrayal and called his fig...
Putin had vowed to punish those behind the armed uprising led by his onetime protege, whose forces seized a key military facility in southern Russia before advancing on the capital. In a televised speech to the nation, Putin called the rebellion a "betrayal" and "treason." In allowing Prigoz...
Yevgeny Prigozhin and his mercenary force launched a brief rebellion in Russia in June 2023. Advertisement: OnJune 24, 2023,Yevgeny Prigozhin, a powerful Russian paramilitary leader and once an ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin, turned his weapons on the Russian army in what many descr...
On Russian state TV, Putin attacked the Wagner chief's actions as a "stab in the back" and vowed to quash the "rebellion." But as Wagner troops inched closer to Moscow, just hours after Prigozhin declared his uprising against Russia's military leadership in typically vague terms ...
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin - who led a short-lived rebellion in Russia last month - is in Russia and not Belarus, the leader of Belarus says. Prigozhin's whereabouts have been a mystery since the mutiny. Under the deal to end the stand-off, charges against him were dropped and ...
Prigozhin - but he's in Russia, says Belarus leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was last seen in public leaving the Russian city of Rostov after ordering his men to stand down following the group's rebellion. Speculation has since continued over his whereabouts and the fu...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered the Russian Armed Forces to neutralize those who organized the armed rebellion of the Wagner private military group. "Any internal turmoil is a deadly threat to our statehood, to...
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