The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Belarus President Putin Alexander Lukashenko has reportedly been spotted fleeing after mercenaries from the Wagner Group say they are preparing to takeover Moscow

The mercenaries’ leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was once close to the Russian president. Then he became a major threat

Dr Colin Alexander, who is an expert in political communications from Nottingham Trent University, has offered tonight a commentary on the ongoing situation in Russia

Ukraine said Yevgeny Prigozhin’s uprising reflected Russia’s ‘full-scale weakness’ as western allies watched closely

While the leadership in Kyiv is weighing how best to seize the moment, average Ukrainians are far less optimistic.

Wagner warlord says his mercenaries will return to their bases in southern Russia in deal with president of Belarus

US National Security Council and Secretary of State monitoring paramilitary group’s armed rebellion

The former hotdog vendor, who benefitted from having Putin as a powerful patron, has now moved into his most dangerous role yet: preaching open rebellion against his country's military leadership

Countries around the world were closely watching events unfolding on Saturday in Russia, where a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group posed the most serious challenge yet to President Vladimir Putin’s long rule.

The uprising is the biggest threat to Putin's rule since he came to power more than two decades ago.

The head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said overnight he had taken control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to oust Russia’s defence minister. The 62-year-old's open challenge to Moscow’s military comes after months of growing tensions over the conduct of the…