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Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Defence Intelligence, is convinced that the plan to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) by Russians has been fully developed and approved, and the threat has never been as great as it is now.
General Richard Dannatt, Former Chief of the General Staff of the UK, believes that Ukraine should beware of a possible attack on Kyiv by the Wagner Group mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who left for Belarus after the rebellion attempt.
The crisis was unprecedented in Russia’s recent history and may forever tarnish the image of the country’s strongman president, analysts told NBC News.
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Russian occupiers have begun to check Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied Mariupol for “loyalty to Ukraine”.
Ukrainian intelligence services suggest that Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner Private Military Company, might have been promised the dismissal of Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and several other military officials, sources told Ukrainska Pravda.
As the private mercenary Wagner announced its march towards Moscow in what was seen as an apparent coup against the Russian top leadership, former US president Donald Trump voiced his concerns...
The Kremlin spokesman says the head of the private Russian military company Wagner owner will move to Belarus as part of deal to defuse rebellion tensions and the criminal case against him will be closed. After the deal was reached, Yevgeny Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine. The deal appeared to defuse a dramatically escalating crisis.
The US Department of State has decided to postpone the planned imposition of sanctions against the gold mining business of Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) in Africa.
JAPAN: Japanese activists have criticized a government report claiming thousands of individuals were forcibly sterilized under a eugenics law, which was not repealed until the 1990s. The report revealed that around 16,500 individuals were operated on without their consent between 1948 and 1996, with women being the majority of victims. Another 8,000 people were also […]
Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the criminal case against the head of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin on organizing a military mutiny will be stopped, he will "leave for Belarus"
The social media giant Meta has confirmed that it will end access to news on its social media sites for all Canadian users before Bill C-18, the Online News Act, comes into force.
Wagner forces had been moving north toward Moscow, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Saturday.
Investigators reportedly found at least three different aliases allegedly used by the mercenary boss: Vladimir Bobrov, Dmitry Geiler, and Oleg Semenov.
Russian security forces have begun to conduct massive raids on the residences of current and former mercenaries of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) and are threatening them with being held accountable for joining Yevgeny Prigozhin’s militants heading for Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group Private Military Company, has confirmed that Russian security forces have found boxes full of money near his office in St Petersburg. Russian media reported that the boxes contain a total of 4 billion roubles (approximately US$47 million).
Ukraine's military said on Saturday that its forces had made advances near Bakhkmut, one of the focal points o
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on Belarusians to not let an opportunity to save Belarus go to waste. The Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, a group of Belarusian opposition volunteers defending Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, has said the military and civilians in Belarus should “wait for a signal”.