Tag: yevgeny prigozhin
Wagner: Wagner boss asks prosecutors to probe ‘crimes’ by Russian defence officials
Russia‘s most powerful mercenary, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Wednesday that he had asked prosecutors to investigate whether senior Russian defence officials had committed any “crime”…
Kremlin: Mercenary Prigozhin says Kremlin blanking him on state media will provoke backlash
MOSCOW: Russia’s most powerful mercenary said on Sunday he was convinced that senior Kremlin officials had banned reporting about him on state media, cautioning that…
Bakhmut: Wagner says handing Bakhmut to Russian military control
MOSCOW: The head of Russia‘s Wagner mercenary group said on Thursday his troops had started transferring their positions in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine city of…
Bakhmut: Russia’s Wagner boss says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle
KYIV: The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 fighters in the drawn-out battle for Bakhmut, with about…
US: Russia’s Wagner group moving weapons to Ukraine via Mali
WASHINGTON: The US suspects Russian mercenary firm Wagner Group is trying to ship weapons to fighters in Ukraine through the West African nation of Mali,…
Wagner: Wagner to leave Bakhmut by June 1, transfer control to Russian army
MOSCOW: The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said on Monday his fighters would leave Bakhmut by June 1 and transfer control to the Russian…
Bakhmut: Has Bakhmut fallen? Russia claims so, but Ukraine denies
KYIV: Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the situation in Bakhmut on Sunday, with Kyiv saying it still controlled a small part of the…
Bakhmut: Ukraine denies loss of Bakhmut to Russia after epic battles
KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied Bakhmut had fallen to the Russians, his spokesman said Sunday, while admitting there was “nothing left” of the flattened city…
Bakhmut: Wagner chief says Bakhmut ‘unlikely’ to fall soon
KYIV: Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut is “unlikely” to fall to Russian forces in the coming days, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group,…
Bakhmut: Russia acknowledges retreat north of Bakhmut, Wagner boss calls it a ‘rout’
KYIV/KOSTIANTYNIVKA: Moscow acknowledged on Friday that its forces had fallen back north of Ukraine’s battlefield city of Bakhmut after a new Ukrainian offensive, in a…