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The Latest Breaking News from Wagner

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 265 of the invasion

US intelligence official says Russian missiles killed two people in Poland; waves of missile strikes across Ukraine as G20 leaders meet in Bali

The Guardian - AU

Family ‘horrified’ by video of sledgehammer killing of Wagner Group defector

Kremlin-linked private military group posted video of apparent execution in Russia of Yevgeny Nuzhin

The Guardian - UK

Traumatised sons hit out at Vladimir Putin's 'fascists' who sledgehammered dad to death

Ilya and Nikita Nuzhin have said that their father was "killed like an animal" after horrific footage showed Yevgeny Nuzhin being murdered by Russian private army Wagner

Daily Mirror

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UK to withdraw troops from Mali peacekeeping mission, announces James Heappey

James Heappey cites concerns over the Malian government’s links to Russian mercenary group Wagner

Evening Standard

Sledgehammer execution of Russian mercenary who defected to Ukraine shown in video

Russia's Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a former mercenary who was filmed being executed by a sledgehammer blow to the head after changing sides in the Ukraine war was a traitor.

Reuters

Did France's Operation Barkhane win the fight against terror in the Sahel?

This week, President Emmanuel Macron announced the official end of France's anti-jihadist mission in West Africa – Operation Barkhane. The move was accelerated by a collapse of relations with Mali's military junta, leading to the withdrawal of French troops as the jihadist insurgency across the Sahel continues.

Radio France Internationale

What's 'Putin's chef' cooking up with talk on US meddling?

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a low profile over the years, but he has been increasingly in the spotlight recently

The Independent UK

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The Syrian Oil: Time for New Approach?

With the war in Syria now in its twelfth year and with the US-Russian conflict still ongoing to control the oil sector and its potential, local belligerents and regional opponents have found in oil a rare point of consensus to cooperate and pick clean the country’s wealth and revenues. Oil…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Vladimir Putin's 'chef' admits interfering in US elections ahead of Tuesday's midterms

Ahead of the midterm elections tomorrow, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin confessed for the first time to interfering with American democracy "carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way"

Daily Mirror

Russia’s Prigozhin Admits Interfering in US Elections

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in US elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics. In comments posted by the press service of his Concord catering firm on Russia's…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How Russian mercenaries colluded with Khartoum regime to exploit Sudan's gold

An investigation has found evidence that the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary force with ties to the Kremlin, colluded with political and military powers in Sudan to exploit the country's gold.

Radio France Internationale

Russian mercenary force Wagner opens first official headquarters

The European Union has accused the Wagner Group of serious human rights abuses in Ukraine, Africa, Syria, and Libya.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s Wagner Group opens defence tech centre in St Petersburg

Opening is latest step for private militia’s owner Yevgeny Prigozhin in taking a more public role in shaping Russia’s defence policy

The Guardian - UK

Outspoken Putin ally Prigozhin's St Petersburg defence tech centre opens

Russia's Wagner Group, a private militia controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, opened a military technology centre in St. Petersburg on Friday, the latest move by the Putin ally who has criticized the Kremlin's defence top brass over the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters

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The Guardian - UK

Russian mercenaries accused of civilian massacre in Mali

Wagner Group fighters linked to attack that killed at least 13 following major military operation

Reuters

Burkina Faso not planning to hire Russian fighters like Mali - U.S. diplomat

Burkina Faso's interim President Ibrahim Traore has assured U.S. diplomats that he has no intention of inviting Russian Wagner forces to fight militants in the country, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's 'chef' who funded Russian troll farms used UK lawyers to fight sanctions

Notorious oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin recruited western legal firms to aid him with developing a plan to counter EU and US sanctions against him, hackers have revealed

Daily Mirror

Russian soldier moans about being used as 'canon fodder' sent to the slaughter

The captured Russian convict-turned soldier claims a Wagner Group commander sent the former inmates to "scout" ahead as the main battalion waited in the wings

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Al Jazeera

Why did Putin impose martial law in occupied Ukrainian regions?

Russian president is attempting to tighten his grip on four annexed Ukrainian regions amid military setbacks.

Axios

Inside the French effort to counter Russian mercenaries in Africa

"We’re competing with a Russian effort to expel France and the West from Africa.”

Daily Mirror

Criminal released by Vladimir Putin to fight in Ukraine executed after trying to desert

Zaur Aliyev was six years into his 18-year sentence but as part of a scheme that sees even murderers trade their sentence for risking their lives in the war, but he was 'shot after trying to leave'

The Guardian - UK

Sergei Surovikin: the ‘General Armageddon’ now in charge of Russia’s war

Commander of attack on Ukraine described as ‘absolutely ruthless, with little regard for human life’

The Guardian - UK

Mass strikes on Ukraine are a desperate answer to Putin’s critics at home

Missile attacks on civilian targets mark an attempt to respond to Russian president’s wounded pride and criticism his invasion is failing

The Guardian - UK

‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters

Key figures including Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin are using military defeats to undermine defence chief Sergei Shoigu

Los Angeles Times

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.

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