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‘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

The Guardian - UK

EXPLAINER: Russia's military woes mount amid Ukraine attacks

Even as the Kremlin moved to absorb parts of Ukraine in a sharp escalation of the conflict, the Russian military suffered new defeats that highlighted its deep problems on the battlefield and opened rifts at the top of the Russian government

The Independent UK

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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What happens if Putin decides to cut his losses in Ukraine?

If you are following events in Russia and Ukraine closely, you could be forgiven for wondering if Vladimir Putin has backed himself into a corner. So, where does this leave him?

WEKU

Putin’s mobilisation and the potential for a political fallout

Attempts to boost forces in Ukraine appear chaotic and have unleashed rare shows of criticism.

Al Jazeera

Burkina Faso coup fuels fears of growing Russian mercenary presence in Sahel

North Africa analysts believe new leader Ibrahim Traoré may seek help from Moscow in fight against Islamic extremists

The Guardian - UK

Russia's war machine faces ridicule from two Putin allies

The withdrawal of Russian forces from a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine has prompted two powerful allies of President Vladimir Putin to do something rare in modern Russia: publicly ridicule the war machine's top brass.

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Russia’s Yevgeny Prigozhin admits owning Wagner mercenary force

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin says he is ‘proud’ of founding Wagner Group staffed by Russian war veterans.

Al Jazeera

Russia's Prigozhin admits link to Wagner mercenaries for first time

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that he had founded the Wagner Group private military company in 2014, the first public confirmation of a link he has previously denied and sued journalists for reporting.

Reuters

Cannibal jailed after headless body fell from car joins Vladimir Putin’s kill squad

Yegor Komarov said he "nibbled to just take a taste" after a headless and repeatedly stabbed corpse fell out of his car when he crashed his Mitsubishi into a fence in St Petersburg, Russia

Daily Mirror

‘Thrown into the meat grinder’: Russians react to mobilisation

After President Putin announced the partial mobilisation of population, ‘how to leave Russia’ spikes on search engines.

Al Jazeera

‘We thieves and killers are now fighting Russia’s war’: how Moscow recruits from its prisons

Inmates describe visits by Yevgeny Prigozhin, reported head of the Wagner group, who is said to offer pardons for those who enlist

The Guardian - UK

Clara Ferreira Marques: Frustrated and snubbed, Putin is running out of options

It’s been a bad few weeks for Vladimir Putin.

Tribune News Service

Convicted murderer hired by Vladimir Putin to fight Ukraine surrenders and defects

Yevgeny Nuhzin, who was sentenced to 24 years in jail after killing someone in 1999, is reportedly one of thousands of prisoners released from prison to fight for Russia's struggling armed forces

Daily Mirror

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Bangkok Post

Video reveals how Russian mercenaries recruit inmates for Ukraine war

In a video that emerged Tuesday, the de facto leader of a Russian mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group is seen promising convicts release from prison in return for a six-month combat tour in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin sends 400 criminals to front line of war in Ukraine with limited training

Footage shows prisoners who have signed up as fighters being taken by a dozen jail vans. The murderers, sex offenders, burglars and other convicts will be sent to the frontline

Daily Mirror

Hardened Russian prisoners offered freedom for six months fighting in Ukraine

The leader of infamous Wagner group, who has close ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been filmed telling hardened criminals that if they join the fight in Ukraine they could be freed after six months

The Guardian - UK

Putin is banking on his friends in the Balkans to help sustain his bloody war in Ukraine

United in a sense of victimhood, Russia has an ally in far-right Serbian groups. The west underestimates them at its peril, says Michael Colborne a journalist and researcher at Bellingcat

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The Conversation

Russia's reliance on mercenaries in Ukraine points to the weakness of its military – and Putin's strategy of deflecting blame

Ukrainian forces are gaining ground in the war against Russia. Since early September 2022, they have launched a massive counteroffensive in Ukraine’s northeast region of Kharkiv, reclaiming large swaths of territory.

The Independent UK

‘They were in a sad state’: Ukraine forces find Russians in retreat

The time and tide of the conflict is changing, temporarily at least, reports Kim Sengupta from Kyiv

Daily Mirror

Russian army 'rounding up homeless people' to fight as Vladimir Putin grows desperate

Officials at the city administration in St Petersburg confirmed that army recruiters had been trying to enlist from the local homeless population as the Ukraine war struggles on

The Guardian - UK

Senior Russian politicians praise ‘martyr’ Darya Dugina at funeral

Calls for victory in Ukraine at service for daughter of ultra-nationalist killed in car bomb

Irish Mirror

Vladimir Putin’s private army HQ 'blown up after online post gives away secret location'

Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine has continued since March, with Putin's forces being pushed back after an initial wave of attack

Daily Mirror

Putin’s private army HQ 'blown up after online post gives away secret location'

The headquarters of Vladimir Putin's state-backed Wagner Group mercenary fighters was reportedly blown up leaving around 100 dead after a bungling Russian propagandist revealed the location online

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine claims it has struck base used by Wagner Group paramilitaries

Kyiv says facility used by Russian group destroyed in ‘precision strike’, with bridge near Melitopol also hit

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