Sipping a $12 beer in one of the world’s wealthiest capitals, Andrei Medvedev reflected on the question hanging over him since he left the battlefields of Ukraine: Is he a hero or a war criminal? He claims to have deserted from Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary force during the monumental battle for the Ukrainian city of […]
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Russian Wagner Leader Threatens to Pull Out of Bakhmut: Ukraine War Live News
The Kremlin is trying to muster the usual patriotic fervor that grips the country in the days before the May 9 Victory Day parade, but unease with Russia’s stumbling war in Ukraine keeps bursting forth. The latest manifestation came from Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, who used what he said were […]
Fierce Battle Rages for ‘Every Stairwell’ in Bakhmut, Wagner Leader Says
A fierce fight was raging on Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where a Russian paramilitary leader said Ukrainian forces were defending “every street, every house, every stairwell,” as they waged a desperate effort to deny Moscow its first significant battlefield success in months. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military […]
Wagner Group Shapes Russia’s Battle for a City in Ukraine: Live Updates
From left, Charles Michel, the president of the European Council; Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO; and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday.Credit…Stephanie Lecocq/EPA, via Shutterstock BRUSSELS — NATO and the European Union, in their first joint declaration on security cooperation since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, underscored […]