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☆ Russia's defense ministry is pressuring volunteer brigades fighting in Ukraine to fall under its command, but at least one is resisting
  + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia's MOD said Tuesday it signed contracts with 4 detachments and 3 brigades of volunteers. It came after the MOD announced last week that Russian "volunteer" groups fighting in Ukraine would be required to sign contracts with the country's defense ministry. The move was widely seen as an effort to bring the Wagner Group under official military control, the BBC reported. Wagner group head Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Sunday that he received an order from Russia's defense ministry to bring his group under its command. The Wagner group — which sent tens of thousands of mercenary fighters and convicts to fight in Ukraine — and Russia's defense ministry have been involved in an escalating public feud.
Persons: It's, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, —, Vladimir Alekseev, Prigozhin, Sergei Shoigu, Sergey Surovikin, Vladimir Putin Organizations: MOD, Service, Ministry of Defense, Kremlin Wagner, Volunteer Assault Corps, Wagner Group, BBC, Russian MOD, Washington DC, for, Ukraine's, Kremlin, Washington Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Bakhmut
☆ Wagner boss attacks Russia's defense minister, says his daughter and son-in-law live in luxury while thousands are sent to die in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The head of the Wagner Group singled out the daughter and son-in-law of Russia's defense minister. Yevgeny Prigozhin was criticizing Russia's elite for sheltering their kids from the war in Ukraine. In an interview with Russian political strategist Konstantin Dolgov, Yevgeny Prigozhin called out Russia's elite for not sending their children to fight in Ukraine, The Times of London reported. Prigozhin directly called out the daughter and the son-in-law of Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu, according to reports. Prigozhin has previously targeted Stolyarov, threatening in February to have his men bring him to train to fight in Ukraine.
☆ Russian troops taking over from Wagner in Bakhmut are abandoning their positions, Ukrainian officer claims: 'As soon as they are afraid, they just run'
  + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Ukrainian officer said Russian troops are abandoning their Bakhmut positions out of fear. "As soon as Wagner left and the regular Russian troops stepped in, they abandoned their positions," he said, adding: "The Wagner fighters would hold positions until the very end. The Wagner Group, which has thousands of mercenary fighters and prisoners serving in Ukraine, has spearheaded Russia's efforts to capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Western officials estimated in early March that up to 30,000 Russian troops had been killed or injured in the city. Zhydkov described a day when Russian soldiers used a grenade launcher to get into a five-story apartment building that was controlled by Ukrainian forces.
☆ Russia's military is copying the Wagner playbook of recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine, with up to 10,000 signing up in April alone, UK intel says
  + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia's military is recruiting fighters for Ukraine directly from prisons, UK intelligence said. The method was previously used by the pro-Kremlin Wagner Group, but it lost access earlier this year. Other investigations have also found Russia is recruiting prisoners to fight. Getting prisoners to fight in Ukraine was a tactic widely used by the Wagner Group, a private mercenary force that has sent tens of thousands of prisoners to Ukraine. It is not clear exactly how many prisoners Wagner sent to Ukraine before it lost access to prisons earlier this year.
☆ Video shows Russian soldiers fleeing Bakhmut outskirts, handing 3 square miles back to Ukrainian forces, Ukraine says
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A screenshot from aerial footage posted by Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade on May 9, 2023. The Ukrainian brigade in question was formed out of Azov veterans. A screenshot from aerial footage posted by Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade on May 9, 2023. A screenshot from aerial footage posted by Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade on May 9, 2023. 3rd Separate Assault Brigade/TelegramDespite the claimed Ukrainian gains, earlier reports suggest that Russian troops still hold a significant portion of the city.
☆ A former Russian military intelligence officer has defected to Ukraine and is setting up his own battalion of dissidents
  + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A former Russian intelligence officer has defected and says he's setting up a pro-Ukrainian unit. Ethnic minorities in Russia are treated like second-class citizens, he said, according to Ukrainian outlet Focus. Ammosov served in the GRU — the military intelligence wing of Russia's army — for 15 years before moving to Europe, Radio Free Europe reported. None have had a formal explanation, which has led to speculation that they were targeted by Ukrainian commandos or Russian dissidents. According to Focus, Ammosov's unit is the fourth such dissident unit to be formed.
☆ Wagner founder rejects claim that he is about to pull back from Ukraine, saying the group will fight there 'as long as our country needs us'
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The boss of Russia's Wagner Group denied reports he's set to reduce operations in Ukraine. Yevgeny Prigozhin has been feuding with Russia's military and said his troops have been denied ammo. Instead, he plans to focus on Africa, where Wagner has been accused of war crimes, the sources said. As long as our country needs us, we are fighting on the territory of Ukraine"Wagner, a private paramilitary group, has sent tens of thousands of mercenaries and former prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Wagner has been barred from recruiting more prisoners from Russia, the UK MOD said, predicting that it would struggle with troop numbers going forward.
☆ Half of all Russian prisoners recruited to fight in Ukraine have likely been killed or wounded, says UK intelligence
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Around half of the prisoners Russia recruited for Ukraine have been killed or wounded, per UK intel. The private pro-Kremlin Wagner Group has sent many prisoners to one of the war's bloodiest battles. But the group can no longer recruit from prisons, limiting its ability to reinforce, the UK said. The UK Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Monday that "about half of the prisoners Wagner has already deployed in Ukraine have likely become casualties." In February, it was reported that Wagner had stopped recruiting prisoners as growing numbers refused to be enlisted on suicide missions in Ukraine, according to multiple reports.
☆ Russia is losing 5 of its soldiers for every Ukrainian it kills in the war's bloodiest battle, NATO official tells CNN
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Russia has lost at least five soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier killed in Bakhmut. Ukraine has also suffered significant losses while defending the ruined city, the official said. Russian forces have lost at least five soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier killed while defending Bakhmut, a military official with NATO told CNN on Monday. The official told CNN that although the ratio was favorable to Ukraine, it had also suffered significant losses. He said that Russia had lost potentially seven times as many soldiers as Ukraine in Bakhmut, per The New York Times.
☆ Russia's entire front line will collapse if it doesn't take Bakhmut, says mercenary boss, accusing regular army of starving his troops of ammo
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Yevgeny Prigozhin said the Russian front line will collapse if Wagner Group men don't hold Bakhmut. In a video circulated over the weekend, he called for more support from the regular Russian army. "If Wagner retreats from Bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse," he said, per Reuters' translation of a video that appeared online over the weekend. Prigozhin went on to complain about "shell hunger" and a lack of support from the Russian army. He has stoked a long-running feud with Russia's regular army leaders over support for his fighters and credit for their role in the war.
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