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...But others were subsumed into irregular outfits, such as Wagner or Redut. “Some structure takes patronage over them,” he said....
...Russia’s main effort is focused around the mining city of Chasiv Yar, which sits atop a hill just 15km west of Bakhmut, the city destroyed and occupied by Russian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries nearly a...
...To do this, Nolan sought out writers Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner....
...Stephen Spender’s novel The Temple is a semi-autobiographical work that draws on a summer spent in Weimar Germany in 1929 with a group of friends who included WH Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Herbert...
...In advance, it had seemed that Christopher Maltman and Christopher Purves, Wotan and Alberich, might have been cast the wrong way round, Maltman having a voice of action, Purves the warmer sound, but in...
...“Wagner exists,” Budanov said, dismissing reports that it had been dismantled....
...Russia lost up to 30,000 men in its nine-month offensive, many of them fighters for the Wagner private military company of late warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin who later mutinied against Moscow....
...Based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk, Christopher Miller, Ben Hall, Max Seddon, John Paul Rathbone, John Reed, Guy Chazan, Henry Foy, Mehul Srivastava, Polina Ivanova and Tim Judah....
...At least 40,000 Wagner fighters were wounded in the battle, the channel said. Russia captured what was left of the city in May. Wagner’s military claims cannot be independently verified....
...He returned to Russia as an adult and soon became a co-leader of Rusich, which was founded in St Petersburg and was closely affiliated with the Wagner group led by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin....
...But what happens to Wagner is unclear. Wagner officers who did not take part in the mutiny will be offered regular military contracts....
...His troops were also facing Russian attacks around Bakhmut, the city captured by Wagner troops in May after 10 months of relentless fighting, he told Ukrainian media....
...After releasing an album of chanson last year, French Kiss, his latest single, “F*ck Wagner”, accompanies his campaign to have Cologne’s Richard-Wagner-Strasse renamed after Tina Turner (his beef is with...
...Wagner would remain in Bakhmut until then to “avoid shame on this day”, Prigozhin said....
...A video posted online by the Wagner head showed him standing among buildings and ruins that the Financial Times recognised as Bakhmut’s city centre....
...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted President Vladimir Putin for being “afraid” and “hiding” as the Wagner mercenary forces advanced on Moscow, threatening his decades-long grip on power....
...Wagner had not established full control of Bakhmut, he insisted, despite Prigozhin’s claims. Cherevatyi argued that over the course of the battle “the Ukrainian army has broken Wagner”....
...National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby has also alleged Pyongyang sold rockets and missiles to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group at the height of the battle of Bakhmut, the longest and bloodiest...
...“Angry patriots” such as Girkin have been in the spotlight after Wagner militia boss Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny on Moscow last month....
...continues to make incremental gains in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, as well as around Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, retaking some of the ground captured in May by the Russian paramilitary group Wagner...
...Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group led Russia’s forces into a city pulverised by heavy artillery — using tactics similar to those the Ukrainian army is employing in the area....
...Meanwhile, Biden poked fun at the recent mutiny attempt by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s erstwhile ally and founder of the Wagner mercenary group that has played a central role in Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine...
...Although Pappano has made his name in Italian opera, he was no late starter in the Wagner stakes....
...The fighting in and around Bakhmut — once home to more than 70,000 people but now almost destroyed — has been waged by a combination of Russian regular forces and Wagner fighters....
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