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Wagner
Initially placed in a detention facility, Ivan Popov, the popular paratrooper general, has been allowed to await the outcome of an ongoing investigation at home.
Jul. 16
Wagner
The former SBU Colonel who was arrested on charges of exceeding his authority after organizing an unsanctioned 2022 attempt to get a Russian pilot to defect failed.
Jul. 16
Putin
Russian authorities in 58 regions have erected memorials to over 400 murderers, rapists, drug dealers and armed robbers who died in the war against Ukraine.
Jul. 10
Putin
One year on from the most serious challenge to Putin's authority in almost a quarter of a century in power, he now appears more secure than ever.
Jun. 24
Wagner
Kyiv’s 3rd Assault Brigade may have established some sort of record for the number of Russian service personnel taken captive during a single battle.
Jun. 13
Bakhmut
Russian news site Mediazona, working with BBC Russia, reported that 20,000 Wagner troops died during last year’s assault on Bakhmut, almost 90 percent of which were convicts.
Jun. 12
War in Ukraine
The Kremlin’s hunger for fresh meat for its war in Ukraine is insatiable, with African students, desperate to retain their residency rights, the latest group to catch the “selector’s eye.”
Jun. 10
Wagner
Mourners and fighters laid flowers at a statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group who died in a suspicious plane crash, at his grave on Saturday.
Jun. 2
ISW
Russia seems about to change sides in the Sudanese civil war to support the Sudan’s Armed Forces so it can establish a naval base on the Red Sea.
May. 28
Russia
Russian journalists said Moscow’s newly appointed defense minister was close to Wagner PMC’s late founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and involved in overseeing his activities.
May. 22
War in Ukraine
A Russian investigative news site says there has been an epidemic of sexual abuse on children in Russia committed by what it ironically terms returning “heroes of the Northern Military District.”
May. 17
Wagner
Wagner, Russia’s rogue private military company, has extended its African tendrils into Sudan by aiding another rogue militia. Ukraine is trying to help the Sudanese government and people.
May. 7
Wagner
It is unclear if the insider source is claiming that the Africa Corps will cease operations in Africa completely or if only certain units will be relocated to the Ukrainian-Russian border area.
Apr. 16
War in Ukraine
The founders of the private military company both died when an explosion brought down their business jet in Russia’s Tver region on Aug. 23.
Apr. 5
War in Ukraine
Russia has taken so many convicts for its war in Ukraine that some of its prison colonies may have to close because of detainee shortages, according to a to a regional official.
Mar. 22
Putin
Proposed changes to Russia’s current laws will see military contracts and pardons offered to suspected or convicted criminals who are at any stage of the criminal process.
Mar. 21
Kyiv’s 3rd Assault Brigade may have established some sort of record for the number of Russian service personnel taken captive during a single battle.
Jun. 13