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After unsuccessful rebellion Prigozhin loses all his investments in Syria
"There are no more Wagner fighters in Syria," anonymous sources in the Syrian government told Russian news agency Russia Today. According to them, all Wagner activities have also been terminated in Syria.
Syrian officials claim that now in the territories controlled by Damascus, only large Russian state-owned companies and units of the Russian regular army operate. Their main base is at the Khmeimim airport. Russia Today notes that Russian investigators interrogated the military in Khmeimim, …
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Ukrainian Defense Minister: the main counteroffensive has not yet begun
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that there should be no doubts about the success of Ukraine's summer counteroffensive and that recent modest achievements are only a "preview" for a much larger offensive.
Reznikov said in an interview with the Financial Times that several villages liberated in recent weeks was "not the main event" in Kyiv's planned offensive.
"When that happens, you're going to see it all. Everyone will see everything," he said, brushing off media reports of a …
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After Prigozhin’s rebellion, Kremlin decides to arm Russia’s National Guard with tanks and heavy weapons
The Russian internal troops, the National Guard, will receive heavy weapons, including tanks, said the Director of the Russian National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, at a press conference after Vladimir Putin's speech on the Cathedral Square of the Kremlin. According to Zolotov, this has already been "discussed with the president."
Talking to reporters, Zolotov said that the soldiers of the National Guard worked competently during an attempted armed rebellion over the weekend. To prevent bloodshed, …
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Putin: Russia has avoided a civil war
The Russian military stopped the civil war in Russia during a confrontation with the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC, said Russian president Vladimir Putin during his address to the military.
"You actually stopped the civil war, acted clearly and coherently," Putin told the military.
According to Putin, during Prigozhin's rebellion, the Russian command did not have to withdraw units involved in the war in Ukraine.
Putin added that the pilots killed by the Wagner mercenaries "honorably …
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Belarus begins construction of camps for Wagner mercenaries
A camp is being built for mercenaries of the Wagner PMC in Asipovichy, Mogilev region of Belarus, 200 km from the border with Ukraine, reports the news outlet Verstka. According to the news outlet, there will be several such camps.
According to Verstka’s sources, the camp in Asipovichy will take an area of 24 thousand square meters. It will be able to accommodate eight thousand people. The sources claim that the builders were given the task to complete the construction of the camp by June 27. …
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Panic in Kremlin as Prigozhin’s private army moving towards Moscow
After camps of the Wagner PMC came under missile strikes and the enraged leader of the mercenary army announced that its force numbering 25 thousand people was going to Moscow, panic began in Moscow and in all Russian southern regions.
Earlier, the host of the Russian First Channel, Ekaterina Andreeva, went on the air with an emergency news release. She called the video showing "the consequences of a strike on the camps of the Wagner PMC” fake and read out statements by the Russian Ministry of …
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Kremlin opens criminal case against Prigozhin for inciting rebellion
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the founder of the Russian PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, after he announced a "march of justice" against the "evil that the Russian military leadership represents”, reports Russian media, citing the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
According to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee, Prigozhin’s claims are groundless.
"In connection with these statements, the FSB of Russia opened a criminal …
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Prigozhin accuses Russian Defense Ministry of carrying out missile strikes on Wagner PMC camps in Ukraine
The Wagner PMC camps, set up in the occupied Ukrainian territory, came under missile strikes, which caused many casualties and significant material damage. According to the surviving mercenaries, they were attacked from the rear, that is, the blow was inflicted by the regula units of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The attack on the Wagner positions by Russia's regular military units was also confirmed by the owner of this private army of mercenaries, Russian billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin. …
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Kyiv: Ukrainian Forces have stopped Russian offensive in Lyman-Kupyansk direction
The Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped the Russians in the Lyman and Kupyansk directions, and there were only 2 clashes, said the speaker of the Eastern Directorate of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Serhiy Cherevaty on Ukrainian TV.
"Earlier, the enemy tried to actively storm our positions in the Lyman-Kupyansk direction for several days and received a powerful rebuff. During the day, the enemy reduced its intentions, there were only two clashes. But the enemy was most actively shelling our positions …
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Prigozhin lashes out at Russian military leadership, says invasion of Ukraine should not have happened
The press service of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, published a part of his monologue on Telegram. The head of the mercenaries again sharply criticized the Russian military leadership and made several statements, that do not coincide with the official Russian position regarding the causes and course of the war in Ukraine.
Prigozhin said that Ukraine was not going to attack Russia: "Now the [Russian] Ministry of Defense is trying to deceive the public, trying to deceive the …