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The Latest Breaking News from Yevgeny Prigozhin

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

How Iran smuggled drones into Russia; Moscow’s forces close in on Bakhmut; the defenders of Vuhledar

The Guardian - AU

Russia eyes Bakhmut's capture by April as NATO ramps up military equipment for Ukraine

Russia rains missiles across Ukraine, striking its largest oil refinery, Kyiv says, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicts the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would fall by April.

ABC News

Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, eyes Bakhmut capture in April

Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin says ‘bureaucracy’ has held Russia back and predicts Bakhmut will fall by April.

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Wagner chief slams 'bureaucracy' slowing Russian offensive

Moscow (AFP) - The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner said on Thursday it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's "monstrous bureaucracy" for slowing military gains.

AFP

Kremlin denies issuing media with guidance to suppress mentions of mercenary boss

The Kremlin on Thursday denied it had issued state media with formal recommendations suggesting they stop mentioning the Wagner mercenary group or its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin after what looked like a leaked guidance document surfaced online.

Reuters

Russia surrounds Bakhmut as Ukraine sends in troops

What happened in the 51st week of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Al Jazeera

Wagner chief says Russia's 'monstrous bureacracy' impeding Ukraine fight

Moscow (AFP) - The head of Russia's mercenary outfit Wagner said it could take months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut and slammed Moscow's "monstrous bureaucracy" for slowing military gains.

AFP

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Mercenary blasts Russian military 'bureaucracy'

MOSCOW: The head of the mercenary group Wagner has admitted that Russia may need another two months to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, blaming the "monstrous bureaucracy" of the top brass for the slow gains.

Bangkok Post

Russia Wagner chief admits it may not take Bakhmut till April

Moscow (AFP) - The head of mercenary outfit Wagner has admitted that Russia may take another two months to capture the embattled Ukraine city of Bakhmut, blaming the "monstrous bureaucracy" of the top brass for the slow gains.

AFP

Solicitors in UK warned not to act as ‘hired guns’ to silence critics of super-rich

Regulator investigating 40 alleged ‘Slapp’ cases, including action by firm on behalf of Russian oligarch who runs Wagner group

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy rules out giving up any territory to Putin in potential peace deal – as it happened

Ukraine’s president says conceding land would mean Russia would ‘keep coming back’

The Guardian - AU

Prigozhin, Simonyan, Medvedev: the rise of the Russian hawk

Moscow (AFP) - The first one challenged Ukraine's president to a fighter jet duel.The second has threatened Europe with nuclear apocalypse.The third has said cannibals roam Ukraine.

AFP

Wagner mercenary group will ‘decrease’ as prisoner recruitment ends, says boss

Kremlin is said to be pushing back against private army and curbing influence of Yevgeny Prighozin

The Guardian - UK

Israeli firm 'boasted' of meddling in more than 30 elections worldwide

An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday.

France 24

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Reuters

'Executed' Russian Wagner fighter shown unharmed in new video

A Russian mercenary shown on video this week ostensibly being executed for desertion by the Wagner private militia has appeared, unharmed, with Wagner's chief on another clip aired on Wednesday.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine ‘inflicting very serious losses’ on Russian troops in the east, says Ukrainian official – as it happened

Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar says Russian attacks are constant

Reuters

Russia declares battlefield gains as Ukraine urges faster military aid

Russia said on Wednesday it had broken through two of Ukraine's fortified defence lines in the east and Kyiv spoke of relentless Russian attacks making it "difficult for us", as Western allies announced more military aid for Kyiv including artillery rounds.

The Independent UK

Who are the Wagner mercenaries and why are they so involved in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has leant on military contractors to claim victories in Ukraine but their leader’s frank dispatches have increasingly rattled the Moscow establishment

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AFP

Battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut far from over: Wagner chief

Moscow (AFP) - The fight for Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine and scene of the longest-running battle since Moscow's offensive, is far from over, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said Tuesday.

Reuters

Russia's Prigozhin admits links to what U.S. says was election-meddling troll farm

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, said on Tuesday that he founded and financed and the Internet Research Agency, a company Washington says is a "troll farm" which meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's marine brigade of 5,000 men 'wiped out' in battle for Vuhledar

A unit of 5,000 Russian fighters were practically destroyed in the latest attempt to forcefully take the area of Vuhledar, Donetsk, in another humiliating defeat for Putin

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin pulls Wagner Group troops from Ukraine as Kremlin 'fears coup'

It is believed Wagner Group mercenaries - many of them convicted criminals - will be replaced by regular soldiers among as many as 300,000 new troops heading to war

Reuters

Kremlin moves to rein in Russian mercenary boss Prigozhin

His private army is pushing hard to give Russia a battlefield win in Ukraine, but mounting evidence suggests the Kremlin has moved to curb what it sees as the excessive political clout of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group.

AFP

Russia's Wagner militia 'formidable adversary': top French general

Paris (AFP) - The controversial Russia mercenary outfit Wagner, which is active in the invasion of Ukraine but also in Africa, is a "formidable adversary" because of the price it is prepared to pay to achieve its goals, a French general said on Monday.

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Putin’s troops suffering highest death rate since first week of war

Wagner group says it has captured a Donetsk village as fighting intensifies

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