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☆ Ukraine's army keeps outsmarting Russia on the battlefield, with cunning ruses and opportunistic attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Tom Porter | Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"Deception has succeeded against Russian forces at all echelons and across all three service branches," the report said. A Russian drone had earlier damaged a tank there, and Afanasyev wanted to make sure it didn't happen again. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe company says over 250 of these decoys have so far been handed over to the Ukrainian military. In eastern Ukraine's Popasna, a base used by the mercenary pro-Russian Wagner Group was bombed to rubble by Ukrainian troops in April 2022. Ukraine's 110th brigade then "worked effectively to attack the Russian soldiers," he said.

Persons: it's, Ivan Oleksii, Oleksii, Cmdr, Oleksandr Afanasyev, Afanasyev, Vladimir Solovyov, Wagner, Igor Russak, Ukraine's, Huw Dylan, David Gioe, Joe Littell Organizations: Service, Royal United Services Institute, Russian, Getty, Kremlin, Wagner, Russian Wagner, Wired, Purpose, Center for Information Resilience, 25th Airborne Brigade, Modern War Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russian, Kyiv, Makiivka, Lyman, Donetsk, St Petersburg, Ukraine's, Avdiyivka, Europe, Izium, Kharkiv, Kherson

☆ Russian soldiers have to buy their own radios and phones in battle, but the systems are incompatible and proving useless: reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Russian mercenary group listed equipment failings that troops are suffering on the front line. The group, known as Rusich, said soldiers were buying their own communications equipment. The report didn't specify what kinds of communications technology Russian troops were buying, but there have long been reports that Russian soldiers lack the equipment to communicate effectively and so use cell phones or their own radio systems. "High-precision ammunition, communications equipment, drones etc... We have them, but unfortunately, there is not enough." The problem has persisted despite a ban last year on Russian forces using cell phones on the front line.

Persons: Serhii Mykhalchuk, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Service, Ukraine Ukrainian, Rusich, Kremlin, Army Technology Locations: Russian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Washington, DC, Nazi Russian, Makiivka, Finland

☆ Russian infighting may have led to Ukraine retaking a key town in its counteroffensive: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Russian mercenary group refused to fight in Ukraine, reports say. It may have enabled Ukraine to seize back control of the village of Robotyne. Infighting has racked the Russian military in recent weeks. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The Rusich was formed in 2014, and has fought in Syria, in conflicts in Africa, and in Ukraine.

Persons: Samuel Ramani, Yan Petrovsky, Wagner, Jeff Hawn, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexsey Milkachov Organizations: Service, Sunday, Ukraine, The Telegraph, Oxford University, Twitter, Kremlin, New Lines Institute, France, Robotyne, Analysts, Group, for Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Robotyne, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Nazi, Finland, Washington, DC, Russia, Zaporizhia Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Moscow, Syria, Africa

☆ Prigozhin's right-hand man in Wagner buried quietly near Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The co-founder and military commander of the Russian mercenary group Wagner was buried near Moscow on Thursday, after dying in an unexplained plane crash that also killed his boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Before helping to found Wagner as Prigozhin's shadowy right-hand man, Utkin was a special forces lieutenant colonel in the GRU military intelligence service. He fought for Wagner to support Moscow's military campaigns in Syria and Ukraine, and was photographed in 2016 at the Kremlin with President Vladimir Putin. Utkin, Prigozhin and Wagner's head of logistics, Valery Chekalov, were among 10 people who died when Prigozhin's Embraer Legacy 600 private jet plunged from the sky north of Moscow on Aug. 23. After a deal ended the mutiny, Utkin said in a speech to Wagner fighters: "This is not the end.

Persons: Wagner, Dmitry Utkin, Stringer, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Utkin, Vladimir Putin, Valery Chekalov, Putin, Kevin Liffey, Mark Trevelyan Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Russian, St, Kremlin, Reuters, Embraer, Thomson Locations: Mytishchi, Moscow, Russia, Russian, St Petersburg, Syria, Ukraine

☆ Wagner channels say Russian arrested in Finland is top fighter with neo-Nazi background
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HELSINKI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Social media channels linked to Russia's Wagner Group mercenaries said on Friday a top fighter in one of the group's subunits had been detained in Finland at Ukraine's request. It is unclear how Petrovsky was able to enter Finland while under European Union sanctions. On Telegram, Rusich published part of what it said was the Ukrainian request for Petrovsky's arrest. Earlier on Friday, Russian state news agency RIA cited the Russian embassy in Helsinki as saying it was aware of the detention of a Russian citizen in Finland on Ukraine's request and was taking steps to offer consular assistance. Reporting by Felix Light in Tbilisi, Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv and Anne Kauranen in Helsinki; Editing by Mark TrevelyanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Russia's Wagner, Wagner, Yan Petrovsky, Petrovsky, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Rusich, Felix Light, Pavel Polityuk, Anne Kauranen, Mark Trevelyan Organizations: European Union, United, Nazi, European, Kremlin, Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, Thomson Locations: HELSINKI, Finland, United States, Ukraine, Norway, Russia, Vantaa, Helsinki, Russian, Tbilisi, Kyiv

☆ How Russians end up in a far-right militia fighting in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

[1/3] Danil Yugoslavsky gets ready at Civic Council’s Warsaw office, hours before crossing into Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, January 15, 2023. Max Smit, who crossed into Ukraine with Yugoslavsky, had never held a weapon before he joined the RVC. And there are some who think that fighting for the motherland is their cause," said Galeotti, naming the Rusich Group and ENOT Corp among far-right paramilitary units fighting on Russia's side. That's still a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and volunteers fighting in Ukraine, and the thousands of foreigners that have been fighting Russian forces there. According to Sokolov, RVC fighters received regular salaries from the Ukrainian defence ministry.

☆ A brutal Russian paramilitary group active in Ukraine called for border intelligence on nearby NATO states: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Russian paramilitary group asked for intel on Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, The Guardian reported. The call raised concerns about "rogue actions" in NATO states, a source told the paper. Task Force Rusich, which has close ties to the Wagner Group paramilitary group and has been highly active in Ukraine, posted the appeal on its official Telegram channel on December 7, the paper reported. All three countries mentioned by Rusich's post are NATO member states, raising concerns over moves that could escalate the war. The group, known for its brutality, openly advocated torture of prisoners in September, The Guardian reported at the time.

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