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In the Ukraine war, a shadowy key player emerges: Russia’s private army of mercenaries

BERLIN — As Russia suffers one devastating military setback after another in Ukraine, a key player in the conflict is stepping out of the shadows: the private army known as the Wagner Group.

Los Angeles Times

How Bellingcat became Russia's 'biggest nightmare'

Paris (AFP) - Digital investigators from the Bellingcat group have spent eight years exposing the lies of the powerful and gathering evidence of their crimes – work that has a grave human cost, the organisation's chief told AFP in an interview.

AFP

Russian spies luring unsuspecting men into honeytraps still at large in the West

A total of 18 Kremlin spies are on the loose in western Europe with two already captured and the search for the rest of them ongoing, it has been claimed by a Russia expert

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Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators

GRU officer spent decade posing as Peruvian jewellery designer, say investigative journalists

The Guardian - UK

Brit plot to entice Russian pilots to turn against Vladimir Putin foiled, Kremlin says

Pictures released appear to show hundreds of dollars in cash being counted out to pay off soldiers and give them EU citizenship in what Russia is claiming is a British plot

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's foreign minister 'left in dark' over bloody plans for Ukraine slaughter

Until shortly before the war, Sergei Lavrov and his foreign ministry were describing claims there would be a full invasion as Western propaganda, but he was 'blindsided' by the decision, his own daughter has said

Daily Mirror

Novichok poisoner linked to Putin hit squad 'vanishes and may have been assassinated'

Kremlin agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev, suspected of being behind the attempted hit on Vladimir Putin's political foe Alexei Navalny, has vanished

Daily Mirror

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Mass civil legal action to seek compensation for Ukrainian war victims

Exclusive: Lawyers to target assets of Russian state, military contractors and affiliated business figures across globe

The Guardian - UK

Coup against Vladimir Putin 'possible' as senior officials believe 'war is lost'

Moscow expert and investigative journalist Christo Grozev says a coup against the Russian leader is now a realistic possibility.

Daily Record

Coup to remove Vladimir Putin a 'realistic possibility' as top security officials rebel

A Russian expert believes the possibility of Vladimir Putin launching a nuclear strike are receding because it is likely his order would not be carried out by officials

Daily Mirror

Putin ‘very ill with blood cancer’, Russian oligarch recorded saying

President Putin, 69, has faced allegations of his failing health in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Putin health update as secret recording allegedly claims he is seriously ill with blood cancer

An oligarch with close links to the president has reportedly been recorded as giving the information during a conversation with a Western venture capitalist

Wales Online

Vladimir Putin ‘very ill with blood cancer' according to 'top oligarch caught in secret recording'

He is believed to have spoken about Putin’s poor health during a conversation with a Western venture capitalist

Irish Mirror

Putin ‘very ill with blood cancer says top oligarch caught in secret recording'

An oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin has been secretly recorded as saying that Vladimir Putin is "very ill with blood cancer" it is reported, with his identity not revealed for his safety

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Daily Mirror

Russia 'cancelled Victory Day flypast over air strike fears', anti-Putin outlet claims

Russia's Victory Day military flyovers to commemorate the national holiday were abruptly shelved as it has been claimed Vladimir Putin made the call because he feared an attack

Wales Online

Does Vladimir Putin have cancer and is he dying? The reports and evidence on the Russian President

There have been suggestions the Russian leader Vladimir Putin may have cancer or Parkinson's disease

Daily Mirror

Oligarch says it's better 'sick' Vladimir Putin DIES than carry on destroying Ukraine

The shocking comment comes after an expert predicted an order by ailing Vladimir Putin to strike Ukraine or the West with nuclear weapons will not be obeyed by his top commanders because of his ill-health

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's army will DISOBEY nuclear bomb order as he's gravely ill, expert says

Expert's say Putin's officers are not willing to risk being hauled before a modern equivalent of the Nuremberg trials for unleashing Armageddon if he will not be around to protect them

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The Guardian - UK

Navalny review – one of the most jaw-dropping things you’ll ever witness

As Putin’s nemesis Alexei Navalny phones up the secret agent who put Novichok in his pants, this terrifying documentary enters the realms of the far-fetched spy thriller – and yet it’s all true

The Guardian - US

‘All I could do was film’: the making of a shocking movie on Alexei Navalny

In the eye-opening documentary Navalny, film-maker Daniel Roher was given unprecedented access to a Russian politician surviving an assassination attempt and a prison sentence

The Independent UK

Nearly 3,000 of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group have been killed in the war, UK MPs told

Wagner Group is among mercenary groups fighting in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Ukraine war recasts 'Navalny' as a prequel to Putin's aims

The war in Ukraine has rapidly recast “Navalny,” a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Daily Mirror

3,000 Wagner Group mercenaries used by Russia killed in Ukraine war, MPs told

Christo Grozev of the Bellingcat website said 3,000 members of the private military company were thought to have died in the Russia-Ukraine war

ABC News

Vladimir Putin's rumoured purge over his disastrous war in Ukraine could show he fell into the 'dictator trap'

Nearly two months since he launched his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is facing heavy troop losses, ruinous sanctions and rumours of purges and even a possible coup.

Wales Online

3,000 Wagner Group mercenaries deployed by Russia have been 'killed in Ukraine', MPs told

The director of Bellingcat has warned that western countries need to take the group more seriously

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