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1. Wagner Group still recruiting despite Russia mutiny - BBC News
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Jun 30, 2023 2:30 p.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcYrD-UjtWc
The Wagner Group is still recruiting fighters across Russia, days after staging a mutiny that led Vladimir Putin to raise fears of civil war, the BBC has found.

BBC News journalists called more than a dozen Russian recruitment centres and was told it’s business as usual.

From Kaliningrad in the west to Krasnodar in the south, no-one believed the group was being disbanded.

Last week, mercenary troops led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin took over the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, marched on Moscow and shot down Russian military helicopters and a plane on their way.

Their mutiny was later aborted after a deal was struck.

2. Ukraine war: a closer look at Putin’s inner circle
The Telegraph
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Jun 30, 2023 3:00 p.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLhb4LOGoq8
Telegraph journalists took a closer look into Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin and his closest allies.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary group, called off his advance on Moscow and has gone into exile in Belarus after striking a deal with the Kremlin.

The leverage that Prigozhin developed over the last few years clearly altered his vision, leading him to believe that his authority outstripped Russia’s generals and even Sergei Shoigu, the defence minister.

With this in mind, his march on Moscow was not an attempted coup d’état aimed at replacing Vladimir Putin, but rather a fight for the redistribution of power, influence and wealth.

A top Russian general has reportedly been detained after Vladimir Putin launched a purge targeting supporters of the Wagner mutiny at the weekend.

Sergei Surovikin, the former commander of Russia’s forces in Ukraine, nicknamed “General Armageddon”, has not been seen since early on Saturday when he released a brief video calling on the mercenaries to end their rebellion.