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British mercenary tortured and killed compatriot in Ukraine – tabloid
A British volunteer in Ukraine has been named the primary suspect in the murder of a fellow Brit fighting alongside Kiev’s forces who was found dead in June, The Sun claimed on Sunday. The purported breakthrough was made in the case of Jordan Chadwick, 31, an ex-member of the Scots Guards, who was serving in a unit attached to Ukrainian…
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, Renegade Mercenary Chief Who Rattled Kremlin
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the outspoken tycoon who built a private paramilitary force that fought on Russia’s behalf in Ukraine and Africa but whose harsh judgment of its army leadership led him to instigate a rebellion, was widely believed to be dead on Thursday, a day after a plane in which he was said to be traveling crashed in Russia. He…
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Wagner plane crash LIVE: Yevgeny Prigozhin's death risks retaliation in Russia after mercenary group threaten Vladimir Putin
LIVE BLOG: Wagner mercenaries have threatened to march on Moscow after it was claimed warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the dead in a plane crash near the Russian capital. . For more news: Elrisala ، For social communication, follow us on Facebook . Source of data and images: dailymail
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'Prigozhin BETTER be alive': Wagner fighters threaten to march on Moscow after Russia claimed mercenary was on-board doomed plane 'brought down by bombs smuggled in wine crate – as rumours spread he 'faked his death' and fled in a SECOND plane
Wagner mercenaries have threatened to march on Moscow if their former leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has been killed after a plane which named him on the passenger list crashed in a Russian field to the north of Moscow. Telegram channels with links to the warlord announced his death on Friday night and claimed it was a result of ‘traitors’, although rumours were awash…
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Who is Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin? From Putin's chef to his 'No1 enemy': Warlord's rise to power as head of mercenary army before mounting failed coup in wrangle with Kremlin over Ukraine war
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is feared dead tonight following reports that a plane carrying him and nine other people crashed and burst into flames in Russia. Shocking video footage has shown the aircraft falling from the sky in the Bologovsky district in the Tver region, with unconfirmed images showing what appears to be a plane covered in a blaze. The…
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Niger’s junta pleads for help from Russian mercenary group Wagner
The deadline nears for rebels to release the country’s ousted president or face possible miliary intervention by the West African regional bloc. Wassim Nasr, a journalist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center, told The Associated Press of the junta’s new plans to turn to Russia for support. Wagner launched a short-lived rebellion of their own last month, when…
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Wagner ‘could inspire rise in dangerous mercenary groups’ in Western enemy countries
The rise of Russia’s private army, the Wagner Group, to global prominence since the start of the war in Ukraine could risk other Western adversaries adopting similar mercenary forces, a UN official has warned a committee of MPs. The Foreign Affairs Committee has released shocking findings following an investigation into Wagner’s activities around the world. The Chair of the UN…
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‘Let’s go on an excursion to Warsaw and Rzeszow’: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko hints the Wagner mercenary group is ‘itching’ to march on Poland in cosy chat with Vladimir Putin
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has said that the Wagner mercenary group is ‘itching’ to march on Poland. During a meeting with Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Lukashenko is reported to have said he was ‘stressed’ because he was having to restrain them. A video posted on Twitter by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, shows Lukashenko saying:…
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Staggering scale of Wagner mercenary troops laid bare as 10,000 already in Belarus
About 10,000 Wagner Group mercenaries are already in, or are on their way to, Belarus, according to the group-linked Telegram channel. The stats released on Telegram also revealed that of the 78,000 Wagner fighters were sent to Bakhmut, 22,000 were killed and 40,000 wounded. On Wednesday, a video released on Telegram showed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin for the first time…
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Vladimir Putin says Russian mercenary group has no legal basis so ‘doesn’t exist’
Cairo: Hani Kamal El-Din – Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Wagner private military company “simply doesn’t exist” as a legal entity, in comments adding to the series of often bizarre twists that have followed the group’s abortive revolt last month – the most serious threat to Putin’s 23-year rule amid the war in Ukraine. “There is no law…
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