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Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko has confirmed that the founder of Russia's mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is now in Belarus, according to Belarusian state news agency BELTA. His plane reportedly landed in the capital, Misnk earlier on Tuesday. Under a deal mediated by Lukashenko on Saturday that ended a mutiny in Russia by the Wagner fighters, Prigozhin agreed to move to Belarus, while his men were given the choice of joining him or being integrated into Russia's regular armed forces. Lukashenko also said his defense minister, Viktor Khrennikov, had told him he would not mind having a unit like Wagner...

Russia’s FSB security service has opened a criminal case for armed mutiny against Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin after the mercenary chief accused the Russian military of targeting his forces and vowed to “destroy” his rivals, in an unprecedented escalation of infighting among Russia’s elite. The FSB said that Prigozhin’s statements “had no basis” adding that it had launched a criminal inquiry. The FSB later added that Prigozhin’s statements and actions constituted “calls for the start of an armed civil conflict on the territory of the Russian Federation.” The security service urged Wagner fighters “not to make irreparable mistakes, to stop any...

Tonight, footage taken on the streets of Moscow showed armoured vehicles racing to secure the Duma building, Russia’s parliament. Tanks and armoured vehicles were seen on the streets of Rostov, an important military outpost in Russia, from where Prigozhin reportedly believes the missile attack was personally directed by Shoigu. Roadblocks manned by special forces were set up around Moscow, as footage showed an armoured motorcade whisking Putin to the Kremlin for an emergency meeting. It is understood the shady Wagner thugs have already passed the first checkpoint on their way to Novocherkassk, where the army headquarters are. In a videotaped...

ARTICLE 1: "Russian military launches missile attack on Wagner PMC camps - Prigozhyn. VIDEO" Censor.NET 23.06.23 21:53 https://censor.net/en/v3426631 Russian Armed Forces launch a missile attack on rear units of Wagner PMC: hundreds of people are killed in attack, social media reports. The corresponding video was published on the Butusov PLUS Telegram channel, VIDEO LINK: https://storage2.censor.net/video/3/230623_hdt.mp4 "A huge number of our fighters were killed. We will decide how to respond. The next step is ours," said Yevhen Prigozhin, head of the private military company Wagner. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that all the videos of the alleged shelling of Wagner's...

Video roundup of reports on Wagner "crossing the Rubicon" into Russia after their bases were attacked by Russian military.

RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Federal Security Service late Friday announced a criminal case against Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin, accusing him of “incitement to armed rebellion” after he declared an open conflict with Russia’s military leadership and called on Russians to join 25,000 Wagner fighters against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and other top commanders. Prigozhin, whose private military company helped Russia seize the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Moscow’s only significant territorial gain this year, accused the Russian military on Friday of carrying out a strike on a Wagner camp, and appeared to threaten Shoigu, declaring “This scum will be stopped!”...

The owner of the Wagner private military contractor made his most direct challenge to the Kremlin yet on Friday, calling for an armed rebellion aimed at ousting Russia’s defense minister. The security services reacted immediately by opening a criminal investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin and calling for his arrest. In a sign of how seriously the Kremlin was taking the threat, security was heightened in Moscow and in Rostov-on-Don, which is home to the Russian military headquarters for the southern region and also oversees the fighting in Ukraine. Prigozhin claimed Saturday that his forces had reached Rostov, saying they faced no...

Peskov: departments report to Putin on measures in connection with an attempted armed rebellion MOSCOW, June 24-RIA Novosti. The Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard report round the clock to President Vladimir Putin on the measures taken after the instructions given to them in connection with an attempted armed rebellion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Special services, law enforcement agencies, namely the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian Guard, in the round-the-clock mode, constantly report to the President on the measures taken in the context of...

Update from Ukraine | Wagner started the military coup in Ruzzia | Prygozhyn is going to Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtjavd5Sug The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 22nd June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-484-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

The Wagner Group's leader has reportedly "declared war" on Vladimir Putin's war after claiming their camp was hit by a Russian missile. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary outfit, claimed the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the Wagner PMC camps. He added: "A huge number of our comrades died, we will decide how to respond to this atrocity." It comes after a bombshell video was released where Prigozhin said Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia...

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin added fuel to his feud with the top brass on Thursday, accusing them of lying to President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people about the scale of Russian losses and setbacks in Ukraine. ... Prigozhin portrays Wagner as Russia's most effective fighting force, and has enjoyed unusual freedom to publicly criticise Moscow - albeit not Putin, on whose support he and Wagner ultimately depend. Yet the order to bring militias under Moscow's direct control suggested to some that he may have outlived his usefulness to Putin in challenging a military hierarchy that has failed to...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine cuts a very important supply from Crimea | Ruzzian army is doomed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfSke0Y8zQ The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 22nd June 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time) https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-484-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/