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The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Ukraine Prepares Counteroffensive as Russia’s Assault on Bakhmut Flags

Ukrainian troops, on the defensive for months, will soon counterattack as Russia's offensive looks to be faltering, a commander said, but President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that without a faster supply of arms the war could last years. The Ukrainian military said early on Friday that 1,020 Russian troops had been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN accuses Russia and Ukraine of ‘summary executions’ of prisoners

The United Nations said Friday it was “deeply concerned” by what it described as summary executions of prisoners of war carried out by Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield. Earlier in the day, Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev said Russian forces may have to advance as far as Kyiv…

France 24

Russia-Ukraine war: UN reports dozens of summary executions of PoWs; Nordic nations agree joint air defence plan – as it happened

Mission says it documented some 40 summary executions in 13 months; Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland agree plan to counter Russian threat

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Russia presses along Ukraine front after reports of Bakhmut slowdown

Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.

Reuters

Ukraine says Russia's Bakhmut assault losing steam, counterstrike coming soon

Ukrainian troops will launch a long-awaited counter assault "very soon" now that Russia's offensive in Bakhmut is losing steam, Ukraine's top ground forces commander says.

ABC News

MoD defends sending uranium shells to Ukraine after Russia's 'nuclear collision' threat

The Ministry of Defence has responded to furious threats by Russian warmonger Vladimir Putin who is unhappy at reports the UK is set to send ammunition to help Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s war chiefs in bitter spat as he begs China's Xi Jinping for military aid

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads up the shadowy Wagner militia, has warned the Kremlin Defence Ministry that Russia could lose all military gains made in the frontline Ukrainian town of Bakhmut unless he acts quickly

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Wagner chief tells Moscow Ukraine is planning ‘large scale attack’

Yevgeny Prigozhin claims Ukraine planning to cut off his forces from Russian troops

Evening Standard

Thousands of Russian convicts who fought for Wagner mercenary group ‘to be released in weeks’

Thousands of Russian convicts who have fought for the Wagner mercenary group will be pardoned and released in the coming weeks, according to British intelligence.

Evening Standard

Russia’s Wagner Chief Warns Defense Minister of Coming Ukrainian Attack

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin told Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a letter published on Monday that the Ukrainian army was planning an imminent offensive aimed at cutting off his Wagner forces from the main body of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. In the letter published by his press service,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Wagner chief tells Russia's Shoigu of coming Ukrainian attack

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin told Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in a letter published on Monday that the Ukrainian army was planning an imminent offensive aimed at cutting off his Wagner forces from the main body of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.

Reuters

Putin Flaunts Alliance with Xi as ‘Dear Friends’ Meet in Kremlin

Vladimir Putin hosted his "dear friend" Xi Jinping for dinner in the Kremlin on Monday, showing off his relationship with his most powerful ally just days after an international court called for the Russian President's arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. Washington denounced Xi's visit, saying the timing showed Beijing…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin flaunts alliance with Xi as 'dear friends' meet in Kremlin

(This March 20 story has been corrected to show that Xi was re-elected earlier in March and not last month in paragraph 3)

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin visits Mariupol in first trip to occupied eastern Ukraine – as it happened

Russian president flew in by helicopter and then drove a car in several districts of the city, site of one of the war’s bloodiest battles

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 389 of the invasion

Russian president visits Mariupol after his forces accused of using cluster bombs in Kramatorsk strikes that leave two dead

Reuters

Russia's private Wagner army targets 30,000 new recruits by mid-May - group founder

Russia's Wagner mercenary group plans to recruit approximately 30,000 new fighters by the middle of May, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday.

Bangkok Post

Timely update on my Munich predictions

It is exactly one month ago that I gave a speech on the eve of the Munich Security Conference. Since then, so many remarkable things have happened -- and have happened so fast -- that it is worth comparing my predictions of a month ago with actual developments.

Al Jazeera

Wagner advance in Bakhmut as Russian offensive appears to weaken

Russian mercenaries were the only element of Moscow’s forces making any progress in the 55th week of the war in Ukraine.

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France 24

Battle for Bakhmut highlights divide between Wagner mercenary chief and the Kremlin

The founder and leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been touted as someone who could pose a political challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Once a key battlefield ally, in recent days Prigozhin has publicly lamented losing his direct line to the Kremlin. Wagner fighters are not…

France 24

Poland to be first NATO member to send fighter jets to Ukraine

Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday said Warsaw would deliver an initial batch of four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would be the first such shipment by a NATO member. Ukraine has repeatedly asked its Western allies to send warplanes – although seeking primarily modern US-made F-16s –…

Daily Mirror

Zelensky tells Britain that Ukraine needs the world’s attention 'even more than before'

Present Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Society of Editors conference in London yesterday, praising the coverage his country's invasion has received from the British press

Evening Standard

What is the Wagner Group as Russian private army declared terrorist organisation

The Wagner mercenary group, that was under the former leadership of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, was recently declared a terrorist organisation by the UK

The Independent UK

‘Clear strategy’: Italy blames Russia’s Wagner group for surge in migrants

Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto called Russia’s use of mercenaries as proxies on countries supporting Ukraine a “clear strategy of hybrid warfare” that has increased migration

Daily Mirror

Putin ‘sends Russian women convicts to war zone for first time due to heavy losses of men’

The head of the Wagner group said there had been “resistance” among the Russian authorities to deploy women in the war zone, but a new report suggests women are now being deployed

The Guardian - AU

Russian ambassador to the US says Moscow does not want confrontation after drone crash – as it happened

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