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Mercenary Prigozhin warns Russia could face revolution unless elite gets serious about war

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, warned that Russia could face a revolution similar to those of 1917 and lose the conflict in Ukraine unless the elite got serious about fighting the war.

Reuters

Jester or rebel? Mercenary Prigozhin lays bare the strains of Putin's war

Yevgeny Prigozhin on Saturday delivered Vladimir Putin one of the few battlefield victories of the president's 15-month war in Ukraine.

Reuters

Who are the Wagner Group and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

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US says Russia’s Wagner force eyes Mali as route for war supplies

Russian mercenary force said to be willing to falsify paperwork to use Mali as transit point for Ukraine war equipment.

Al Jazeera

US says Russia's Wagner Group seeking to transit military equipment through Mali

The U.S. State Department on Monday said Russia's Wagner Group is trying to obscure its efforts to acquire military equipment for use in Ukraine, adding that Washington has been informed the mercenary force is seeking to move those acquisitions through Mali to aid Russia in its war.

Reuters

Fighting in Russia as Ukraine 'sabotage' group crosses border

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Moscow said Monday that its troops were battling a Ukrainian "sabotage" group that infiltrated the southern Russian region of Belgorod as locals fled the latest bout of fighting in the troubled territory.

AFP

Russian troops could be snared in 'mousetrap' Ukrainian city as '100,000 killed'

Kyiv sources are claiming that more than 100,000 soldiers have been killed battling for Bakhmut and that Ukraine’s soldiers will encircle them in the coming weeks

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Fall of Bakhmut would signal ‘a Pyrrhic victory for Wagner’

We speak to a Ukrainian military expert, serviceman and analysts on what the possible capture of Bakhmut means.

Al Jazeera

Russia says Ukraine sabotage group crosses border

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Moscow said Monday its troops were battling a Ukrainian "sabotage" group that infiltrated Russian territory as Kyiv insisted it is still fighting for control of the flashpoint eastern city of Bakhmut.

AFP

Ukraine says advances on Bakhmut’s flanks trap Russians

Ukraine says its forces north and south of Bakhmut are advancing to entrap Russians inside the ruined city Moscow says it captured.

The New Daily

Battle of Bakhmut: a ‘pyrrhic victory’ for Russia?

It is still unclear whether the months-long battle for control of Bakhmut has ended, with claims by Moscow that the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group had finally captured the city being countered by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Week

Bakhmut: is devastating nine-month battle coming to an end?

The Week

Russia fights cross-border raid that Ukraine says is Russian opposition

Russia said on Monday it was battling a cross-border incursion by saboteurs who burst through the frontier from Ukraine, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks of its kind since the war began 15 months ago.

Reuters

Who are the Wagner Group and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Newly released photos show devastation in Bakhmut

Newly released photos show the near total destruction of Bakhmut as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky likened the damage caused by Russian forces to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Reuters

Wagner founder Prigozhin says his forces will leave Bakhmut from May 25 to June 1

The founder of Russia's Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that Wagner forces will leave Bakhmut, the Ukrainian city that it successfully took on Saturday after a months-long battle, from May 25 until June 1.

The Independent UK

Russia claims to have Bakhmut but top Ukrainian military leaders say the battle is not over

Russia claims it has won control of Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut after a grinding nine-month conflict in which tens of thousands of fighters have died

Al Jazeera

Russians celebrate reports that ‘fortress Bakhmut’ has fallen

Ukraine’s president is denying claims that the eastern city is under Russian control after months of heavy battle.

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Russia's Prigozhin says Bakhmut territories captured as promised, will leave zone

The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Sunday that his forces had captured all the territory in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as promised and would leave the conflict zone later this week.

AFP

Zelensky says Bakhmut 'not occupied' by Russia

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Bakhmut was "not occupied" by Moscow, while the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group insisted his fighters had taken control of the eastern city "to the last centimetre".

Reuters

Ukraine aims to encircle Bakhmut as Russia says it captures city

Ukraine said on Sunday that its forces were still advancing around the edges of Bakhmut, aiming to encircle the ruined eastern city after Moscow congratulated the Wagner private army and Russian troops for capturing it.

Axios

Ukraine's Zelensky denies that Russian forces are occupying Bakhmut

The monthslong battle has led to heavy losses on both sides.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine: Zelenskiy denies Russian claims to have taken Bakhmut

‘Bakhmut is only in our hearts. There is nothing ... just ruins and dead Russians,’ says Ukraine’s president

The New Daily

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky denies city of Bakhmut occupied by Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian forces are not occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow's claims.

Reuters

Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Moscow unleashes strings of large air raids on Kyiv

With a long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive looming to recapture territory taken by Russia in 15th months of fighting, Moscow launched a series of attacks on Kyiv over the weekend targeting military infrastructure and supplies.

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