Since 2018, the notorious Russian mercenary company formerly known as Wagner has overseen security for top officials in the ...

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Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

"In that sense, Libya has been functioning as a bridgehead," he added. The Wagner Group was founded in 2014. For years, it was run by the Russian millionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin who used to have ...

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While Prigozhin’s face was ubiquitous in global ... nor was it clear if his own beliefs diffused into Wagner itself, Kirill Semenov, a Libya expert at the Russian International Affairs Council ...

MOSCOW--Russia's most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authorities said, two months to ...

Former Russian mercenary and Wagner leader the late Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Wagner Group is ... in Central African Republic (CAR), Sudan, Libya, and Mozambique but have proved to be ineffective ...

In August 2023, the Russian president publicly described the tech entrepreneur as “a talented person” — the same language he’d recently used when commenting on the violent death of mercenary leader ...

Amid conflicting reports, AP sent an alert on the crash at 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time, then another one three hours later confirming that Prigozhin was on board the plane that crashed; other outlets ...