Yevgeny Prigozhin

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

Those prisoners agreeing to join the mercenary group were promised freedom after their service, but cases where these recruits are involved in violent crimes are causing alarm

Russian authorities said Tuesday that they have closed a criminal investigation into the Wagner uprising and are pressing no charges against Prigozhin or his followers

The support received by the mercenary group is threatening the united front that the Kremlin is trying to build

Around 99% of residential buildings and 80% of the houses are damaged or destroyed in the town, which is close to the front where the Wagner Group gained greater prominence

The end of the rebellion has raised questions about what will happen to the mercenary group, which acts as the Kremlin’s unofficial armed wing in countries such as Mali and the Central African Republic

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

Washington’s greatest concern in the face of a possible rebellion led by Prigozhin centered on control of Russia’s nuclear arsenal

Prigozhin said he was ordering his troops to halt their march on Moscow after reaching a deal to resolve the crisis. The Kremlin announced that it will drop charges against the mercenary leader, who can take refuge in Belarus

‘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

Prigozhin posted a series of angry video and audio recordings in which he accused Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu of ordering a rocket strike Friday on Wagner’s field camps in Ukraine

Media and defense analysts are increasingly reliant on Russian military sources for reports on front line combat operations after Kyiv imposes news blackout

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

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s figures stood in stark contrast to Moscow’s widely disputed claims that just over 6,000 of its troops were killed throughout the war as of January

The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the ground in the invasion’s longest battle, and a series of comments from Ukrainian and Russian officials added confusion to the matter

In a video posted on Telegram the head of Russia’s mercenary army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said the city came under complete Russian control at about midday Saturday

Kyiv’s attack to recover territories occupied by Moscow is expected to take place before mid-June along the southern and eastern front lines, where Russian forces have dug in

Moscow acknowledges having withdrawn its troops on one flank in Bakhmut while rumors abound on social media of Kyiv’s forces advancing and even preparing to cross the border

A threat by the owner of private Russian military company Wagner on Friday to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize an eastern Ukrainian city is another flareup in his dispute with Russia’s regular military

Brussels and Washington state that the Wagner Group operates in the African country through shell companies and is involved in the exploitation and smuggling of gold

The Russian mercenary organization has turned the impoverished Central African Republic into a successful center of economic and military influence for Moscow