Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian activist group that monitors troop movements in Belarus, said a convoy of more than 100 vehicles carrying Russian flags and Wagner insignia entered the country on Monday
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the strike was carried out by two Ukrainian maritime drones. The attack was the second major strike on the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections
In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., the Russian president said that Moscow has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far
Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a munition that has been banned by over 100 countries and which will wreak havoc on the civilian population for decades after the end of the war
The Kremlin earlier this month suggested that it was open to a possible prisoner exchange that could involve Evan Gershkovich, but it underscored that such talks must be held out of the public eye
The Wagner head has not commented on the meeting with Putin, and his ultimate fate remains unclear, as he could still face prosecution for financial wrongdoing or other charges
The crisis in Russia over Wagner’s mutiny has revealed the complex network of troops working in and outside of the country. The Kremlin helped create a system that has now turned against him
The failed rebellion of Wagner’s mercenaries has shown the cracks in the Russian leader’s power. In addition to the war in Ukraine, the president faces international pressure, faltering domestic support and a bleak economic outlook
The Ukrainian-held city in the Zaporizhzhia region is one of the staging points for Kyiv’s counteroffensive, making it a target for daily shelling by the Kremlin’s forces
The Russian president came out of the crisis caused by the Wagner rebellion weakened, but he has not yet been defeated. He has merely avoided a decisive fall
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
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