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Revelations from Ukrainian president come a day after massive assault deep inside Russia

The restructured and rebranded Wagner Group will survive to serve the interests of Putin and the Russian state for the foreseeable future, writes Stephen Hoadley

Family pay tribute to Samuel Newey, who had been volunteering for more than a year against Russian forces

Where were you when you heard that Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aircraft had crashed and he was presumed dead? For Ukraine watchers it was something of a surreal JFK moment. And, like the Zapruder tape, the video footage of the Russian mercenary group commander’s Embraer Legacy 600 private jet…

A few days after the plane crash that killed Russian oligarch and head of the Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin, two videos emerged online showing the destruction of cemeteries for Wagner mercenaries – or so social media users claimed. Some people are saying that this destruction is part of…

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said the weapon could hit a target 700 kilometres (400 miles) away

Innovative design choices can have a massive impact in the theatre of war, so it is important to understand the principles behind their development. Recent use of low-cost cardboard drones by Ukraine, supplied by Australia, to attack targets in Russia is a good example of how this can work.

Why do wars end? Historians can often pinpoint the reasons they begin – the absence of a male heir, an archduke taking the wrong turn down a Sarajevo side street or simple territorial ambition. But endings – from Afghanistan to Game of Thrones – can be tricky.

While the Ministry of Defence says Russia is likely struggling with detecting Ukrainian drones – a number of a US-made counter-drone launcher have arrived in Ukraine and are being used by Kyiv’s troops

Sam Newey was killed in action in Eastern Ukraine on Wednesday

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow