The Malian army took back the town of Kidal from a coalition of Tuareg separatists known as the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development (CSP) on November 14, with help from mercenaries with the Russian military contractor, the Wagner Group. The Wagner mercenaries allowed local people to take their picture – a first … Read more
MOSCOW: Russian patriotic bloggers on Friday poured scorn on President Vladimir Putin‘s intimation that mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was blown up with hand grenades while those on board were high on cocaine and alcohol. The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people … Read more
Russian leader says grenade fragments found in bodies of those killed in jet crash where Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin died. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the plane crash which killed the head of the Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was caused by the detonation of hand grenades inside the aircraft. Putin suggested on Thursday … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of rogue Wagner boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin and two top deputies who were killed in a plane crash in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. The wreckage showed no “external impact” on the aircraft, he said, in an apparent denial that the Kremlin … Read more
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested that the plane crash which killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in August was caused by hand grenades detonating inside the aircraft, not by a missile attack. The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine – The lean, grey-haired man lying on the asphalt was so drunk he couldn’t utter his own name. Ambulance workers found Andrei Troshev near a nine-storey apartment building in uptown St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, on June 5, 2017, according to the independent Fontanka.ru news portal. The inebriated Troshev had about $25,000 in … Read more
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that Russian prisoners who died in Ukraine had redeemed themselves in the eyes of society. To boost regular troops fighting in Ukraine, the army and mercenary group Wagner have extensively recruited from Russian penal colonies. “They are dead,” Putin said during a televised meeting, referring to prisoners who … Read more
Issued on: 19/09/2023 – 17:39 03:07 Alexander Fyodorov, a former Wagner fighter and convict. © AFP Alexander Fyodorov spent had spent most of his life in prison for various crimes before becoming one of thousands of convicts recruited by the Wagener Group to fight in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Upon his return to Russia he … Read more
But as an extended arm of Kremlin policy in troubled parts of the world like Mali and Libya, Wagner – or whatever it may be rebranded as – still has the capacity to make money out of war, instability and alleged atrocities. To that end, banning it in Britain as a terrorist organisation has been … Read more
Comment on this storyComment A day before the airplane disaster that killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, a Prigozhin ally known as “General Armageddon,” was removed as head of Russia’s air force. Surovikin’s ouster was not the only hint that a consolidation was underway among the commanders of Russia’s war in Ukraine. … Read more