US intelligence: Top Russian general knew of Wagner rebellion in advance
Officials also claim there are indications other Russian generals may have supported Prigozhin’s attempt to forcibly change the leadership of the Defense Ministry
Officials also claim there are indications other Russian generals may have supported Prigozhin’s attempt to forcibly change the leadership of the Defense Ministry
Following the aborted uprising, it remains unclear where Prigozhin’s 20,000-25,000 mercenaries are deployed and what their next move will be after their leader’s exile
The Russian president said all necessary measures have been taken to protect the country and the people from the rebellion. He blamed ‘Russia’s enemies’ and said they ‘miscalculated’
The main unknown in Wagner’s attempted rebellion is whether Prigozhin’s uprising is an isolated act of a defiant coup plotter, the figurehead of one (or several) Kremlin families, or both
Life in Moscow and the southwest border with Ukraine has returned to normal after the mercenaries stopped their march towards the Russian capital, but the security crisis has called into question Putin’s strongman image
‘The longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have,’ President Zelenskiy warned
The head of the private security company Wagner has raised his profile during the war in Ukraine. His attack poses a major challenge to the Kremlin
El grupo de mercenarios rusos, con Yevgueni Prigozhin a la cabeza, ha llamado a levantarse contra el poder del Kremlin
After the deal was reached Saturday, Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. The deal appeared to defuse a dramatically escalating crisis
Members of the Ukrainian Police’s special forces are engaged in fighting in their home region, spurred on by the desire to liberate their relatives from the occupied zones
Seven African leaders visited Ukraine on Friday to try to help end the nearly 16-month-old war, ahead of a trip to Moscow to meet with the Russian president
The Thor unit, which is involved in one of the most intense battles of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, is attacking Russian positions around the village of Mala Tomachka
The NGO Mission Kharkiv, born in the shadow of the Russian invasion, has delivered more than 180 tons of medicine and treated more than 60,000 patients
In some of his most detailed remarks about the war in months, the Russian leader also said he was not contemplating a new troop mobilization, as many Russians have feared, but did not rule it out
Media and defense analysts are increasingly reliant on Russian military sources for reports on front line combat operations after Kyiv imposes news blackout
Moscow has built heavily fortified defenses along the front line, honed its electronic weapons to reduce Ukraine’s edge in combat drones and used its massive Cold-War-era arsenal of heavy bombs to turn them into precision-guided gliding munitions
Denis Sokolov is in charge of recruiting volunteers from Russia willing to fight in Ukraine’s International Legion against the invading Kremlin forces
Floodwater from the burst banks of the Dnipro has extended over 30 miles to the north, wiping out farmland, bridges and villages
The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam has further punished a population carrying on with their lives on the banks of the Dnipro, on the front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces
The flooding caused by the breach benefits Moscow militarily by hampering attacks on a key area of the front. Military analysts say it could set Kyiv back weeks and cause a huge ecological catastrophe
Kyiv has imposed an information blackout as Moscow and Russian military sources confirm multiple attacks on the eastern front
‘I don’t know how long it will take. To be honest, it can go a variety of ways, completely different,’ the Ukrainian president said during an interview with the ‘Wall Street Journal’
Tuesday’s attack, which targeted an area near the official residence of Vladimir Putin and has been attributed to Kyiv by the Kremlin, has raised questions about Russian air defenses
Russian President Vladimir Putin has framed his country’s invasion of Ukraine partly as a way to defend conservative values against Western promotion of gay and transgender rights
Ahead of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, concerns are growing over the safety of the nuclear power plant in Energodar, which was captured by Moscow at the beginning of the invasion. ‘If this explodes, only a shadow of us will remain’
Russia has put hurdles in the way of companies that want out, requiring approval by a government commission and in some cases from President Vladimir Putin himself, while imposing painful discounts and taxes on sale prices
When the weapons would be deployed remains unknown, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the construction of storage facilities for the weapons in Belarus would be completed by July