Tag Archives: Putin

Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has made comments since the one-day mutiny by his Wagner force, saying it was not intended to overthrow Russia’s government but to register a protest over what he said was its ineffectual conduct of the war in Ukraine.   In his first public statement since …

  Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday that the country had faced “a challenge to its stability” and must remain united behind President Vladimir Putin following Saturday’s abortive mutiny by heavily armed mercenary fighters.   Under a deal late on Saturday, June 24, that defused the crisis in …

The aborted mutiny by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group at the weekend demonstrated the scale of the Kremlin’s strategic mistake in waging war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday,  June 26.   Wagner fighters halted a rapid advance on Moscow on Sunday, withdrawing from the seized southern Russian …

  Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russian Mercenary group, Wagner, has announced his forces will be retreating from its march towards Moscow. On Saturday morning, June 24, Wagner forces took over military bases in Russia in an attempted coup d’etat saying it wanted to change Russia’s military leadership following an …

The leader of the mercenaries engaged in a rebellion against Putin has said that his forces have agreed to stand down after they were reportedly told that they would be moved out of Russia and Ukraine. The New York Times reported: The Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin announced that …

Speaking during an emergency televised address in Moscow on Saturday, President Vladimir Putin has promised that he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after Yevgeny Prighozin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary force, seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine. Below is the full …

Russian president, Vladimir Putin has responded to the rebellion by the Wagner Group of mercenaries as a “stab in the back” and vowed “decisive action” would be taken.   Putin made the comments in a televised address on Saturday June 24, after Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that military sites …

There is something going on in Russia as mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is claiming that his troops are on the march in Russia, while Putin has not been seen in public, and Russian leadership appears to be preparing for a military coup. Prigozhin accused the Russian troops of attacking his …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned there is a “serious danger” of NATO being drawn further into the Ukraine war if members of the alliance continue to supply military weaponry to Kyiv.   The comment appeared to be a reference to the F-16 fighter jets some members of the NATO …

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive that he had ruled out using nuclear weapons. Dropping what …