Russia has effectively dismantled and replaced the Wagner Group in the year since the mercenaries shocked the world by launching a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC. Yevgeny Prigozhin – the late leader of the paramilitary force – crossed from Ukraine on 23 June 2023 and seized the southern city […]
One of four original suspects in the 2016 Pike County massacre case is appealing his conviction for the crimes. George Wagner IV claims there were nine errors in his fall 2022 trial, where a jury found him guilty on 22 counts related to the shooting deaths of seven members of Pike County’s Rhoden family and […]
Russia has deployed Africa Corps units to aid its offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, UK Intel says. The Africa Corps, created in December 2023, includes former Wagner Group mercenaries. Russia is currently advancing on two fronts in Ukraine’s east, and in the northern Kharkiv region. Russian units from the Ministry of Defense’s Africa Corps are […]
FILE – Katharina Wagner, artistic director of the Bayreuth Wagner festival, answers questions during a press conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Wednesday, July, 22, 2009. The Bayreuth Festival announced on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, that the organization is retaining Katharina Wagner as the director of the festival celebrating her great-grandfather’s works for another five […]
May 6—WAGNER, S.D. — An 89-year-old woman has died as a result of injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Wagner on the evening of Friday, May 3. According to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, the driver of a 2012 Dodge Ram was traveling eastbound on S.D. Highway 46 near […]
The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians, human rights groups have said. Children were among the victims of the attacks which were carried out between December to March. Mali, along with its neighbours Burkina […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians, including many children, rights groups said in reports published this week that span the period from December to March. Mali, along with its […]
The North Carolina Tar Heels face the Wagner College Seahawks this afternoon. (Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) March Madness continues this Thursday with the Round of 64 tipping off in the men’s tournament. One of the 32 games being played in the next two days? North Carolina vs. Wagner. The No. 16 seed Wagner […]
The Kremlin ordered Yevgeny Prigozhin‘s death in a plane crash last August, according to reports. Moscow has since worked to absorb Wagner’s empire and militia in Ukraine and Africa, analysts said. The Wagner Group has become “marginalized” and “de facto” subordinated to Russia, one analyst said. Vladimir Putin reportedly ordered Yevgeny Prigozhin’s demise last year […]
Claim: Former U.S. Secretary State Hillary Clinton said of some U.S. citizens in February 2024, “There is a yearning for leaders who can kill and imprison their opponents, destroy the press [and] lead a life that is one of impunity, unbound by any laws.” Rating: Rating: Correct Attribution In February 2024, former U.S. Secretary of […]
A Russian man who reportedly defected from a high-ranking position in the Wagner Group has been given permission to stay in Norway but was refused permanent asylum, a Norwegian newspaper has reported. The lawyer for Andrey Medvedev, Brynjulf Risnes, told Dagbladet that his client was granted temporary residence “due to the security risk involved in […]
A Russian man who reportedly defected from a high-ranking position in the Wagner Group has been given permission to stay in Norway but was refused permanent asylum, a Norwegian newspaper has reported. The lawyer for Andrey Medvedev, Brynjulf Risnes, told Dagbladet that his client was granted temporary residence “due to the security risk involved in […]