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Burkina Faso contracts Russian mercenaries, alleges Ghana

Burkina Faso has allegedly made an agreement with Russia’s Wagner Group in which the shadowy mercenary outfit will help the West African country deal with surging jihadi violence in exchange for a mine

The Independent UK

Burkina Faso aware of the dangers of Wagner force -France

France's foreign ministry said on Thursday the Burkina Faso government was fully aware of the risks of working with mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group after Ghana alleged on Wednesday that Ouagadougou had hired the group.

Reuters

‘Huge number’ killed in strike on Russian mercenary group’s HQ

Ukraine said to have struck as Foreign Secretary James Cleverly accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘turning back the clock’

Evening Standard

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Ukraine says it killed Wagner mercenaries, who are they?

Controversial armed group emerged from being a murky guns-for-hire enterprise to a public extension of the Russian army.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: EU agrees extra €2bn for Ukraine military support; two civilians die after Russian rockets hit Donetsk town – as it happened

EU foreign ministers sign off more money for European Peace Facility; 10 people injured in attack on Hirnyk in Donetsk region

The Guardian - AU

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries targeted in hotel attack: Governor

Ukrainian governor Serhiy Haidai claimed a ‘huge number’ died in a strike on hotel where Russian mercenaries were based.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine-Russia news - live: Putin’s troops ‘unlikely to make notable gains in coming months’

Moscow ‘likely still aim to prioritise advancing deeper into Donetsk’

The Independent UK

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 292 of the invasion

Ukraine attacks barracks in Russian-occupied city of Melitopol; emergency crews work to ease power shortages across Ukraine after Russian attacks

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine regional official says strike hits Wagner group headquarters

A senior official in eastern Ukraine said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces had attacked a hotel where members of Russia's private Wagner military group were based, killing many of them.

Reuters

In the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’, deadlocked enemy forces slog it out

Ukrainians have the technical advantage but Russians persist in sacrificing troops to take an area with no strategic value

The Guardian - UK

Zambian killed in Ukraine was prisoner Russia pardoned: Official

Foreign Affairs Minister Kakubo said Russia told him Lemekhani Nyirenda joined war in Ukraine in exchange for amnesty.

Al Jazeera

Lawsuit against Russia's Wagner group seeks Ukraine reparations: lawyer

A lawsuit in Britain against Russian private military contractor Wagner could help Ukrainians seek reparations for alleged crimes committed during Russia's invasion, a lawyer whose firm filed the suit said on Wednesday.

Reuters

US is weighing a terrorism label for Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration is weighing whether to label Russia’s Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization, two people familiar with the matter said, as part of efforts to handicap the privately owned military company’s involvement in Ukraine and its growing presence in Africa.

The Times of India

Russia's Prigozhin says Zambian student who died in Ukraine was fighting with Wagner

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday said a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group.

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The Guardian - UK

Fighting in east Ukraine descends into trench warfare as Russia seeks breakthrough

The town has been abandoned by most of its 70,000 residents as relentless shelling reduced buildings to rubbleSee all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy says Kyiv residents ‘need more protection’ as temperature drops – as it happened

Ukraine’s president calls on local government officials to do more as power cuts leave population vulnerable to the elements

Bangkok Post

Russian shelling kills 15 in Kherson

KYIV: Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed 15 civilians on Friday, officials said, as engineers across the country sought to restore heat, water and power to major cities.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 276 of the invasion

More than 6m Ukrainian households still without power; EU to boost efforts to restore electricity and heating; Hungarian president to meet Zelenskiy

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin orders prisoners to fight in Ukraine war or face brutal punishments

Lags were previously offered freedom deals if they joined the invasion, but the notorious Wagner Group of mercenaries has switched to more brutal recruitment tactics

Al Jazeera

Russian forces in Kherson alert as Ukraine plans next move

Ukraine has kept Russian forces guessing about their next move, pinning down occupying troops in defensive positions.

France 24

Oxfam France warns of worsening humanitarian situation in Mali

Humanitarian groups are warning that the situation in Mali risks deteriorating rapidly after Bamako announced a ban on NGOs financed by France. The move came in response to France's decision to cut off public funding to Mali because of its alleged involvement with the Russian paramilitary group Wagner. Also in…

France 24

Putin's Africa endgame: Macron accuses Russia of stoking anti-French sentiment

It was always a stretch. Emmanuel Macron kept the lines of communication open with Vladimir Putin while Russia's propaganda machine and the mercenaries of Wagner fuelled anti-French sentiment in Africa. But in an interview on the sidelines of a Francophone nations summit in Tunisia, it sounds like the gloves are…

ABC News

How two Australian soldiers became unwitting poster boys for Russian mercenary Wagner Group's Ukraine recruitment drive

On a spring day in 2013, two Australian soldiers had their photograph taken in Afghanistan. Now the photo has resurfaced in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — all without the soldiers' knowledge.

The Guardian - UK

Emmanuel Macron accuses Russia of feeding disinformation in Africa

French president says Moscow is pursuing ‘predatory project’ to spread influence in African countries

Reuters

France's Macron accuses Russia of 'predatory' influence in Africa

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of feeding anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve "predatory" ambitions in troubled African nations, where France has suffered military setbacks and a wider loss of influence over recent years.

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