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‘Very Dangerous People’: Russia’s Convict Fighters Are Heading Home
Tens of thousands of inmates have joined a mercenary group fighting with the Kremlin’s decimated forces in Ukraine. Some of them are returning to civilian life with military training and, in many cases, battlefield traumas.
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Imagery Shows How a Cemetery for Russian Mercenaries Is Expanding
Recent satellite imagery and video footage offers a rare look at combat fatalities sustained by the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine.
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The U.S. will name the Wagner mercenary group a transnational criminal organization.
The United States has decided to designate the Russian private military group Wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization, the White House said on Friday, a move that will expand the number of nations and institutions that can be ...
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The U.S. will impose new sanctions on the Wagner mercenary group in Russia.
The United States has decided to designate the Russian private military group Wagner as a significant transnational criminal organization, the White House said on Friday, a move that will expand the number of nations and institutions that can be ...
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A Wagner fighter defects to Norway, promising to expose Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
A former member of a notorious Russian paramilitary force has surrendered to Norwegian authorities, a rare defection that his lawyer and Russian human rights activists say could aid international probes into Moscow’s atrocities in Ukraine. Andrei ...
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Russia issues the first pardons to prisoners who fought in Ukraine, state media reports.
The head of Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group said that a first group of prisoners whom it recruited to fight in Ukraine have completed their service and been pardoned, state media reported on Thursday. Human rights groups said the move highlights ...
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Washington says North Korea is delivering arms to the Wagner Group, for Russia’s use in Ukraine.
The White House on Thursday warned that North Korea had delivered arms supplies to the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary force with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin. Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, denied the assertion ...