Around half of the 20,000 Wagner fighters to have died in Bakhmut were convicts, Mr Prigozhin said this week. Earlier this month, the US said it believed more than 20,000 Russian soldiers had been ...

The leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he will withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on 10 May ... that more than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and another ...

Russian soldiers are using mines in temporarily occupied Bakhmut, the Donetsk region, for military purposes, setting up ...

He participated in assaults in Soledar and Bakhmut in Ukraine ... names of both the commander and the soldiers who carried ...

Lighting his pipe, the commander barely reacted to explosions in the distance as he explained how his men were dying, ...

That changed when the long-time Kremlin ally finally admitted in 2022 he had founded the Wagner group and began a mass recruitment drive at Russia’s prisons for foot soldiers to fight in ...

The attritional war in Bakhmut seems to be having little effect on Wagner’s appeal. British officials “estimate that the number of soldiers under Wagner’s control has ballooned from about ...

Soldiers could be executed on the spot for ... strategic and symbolic battlefield victory for Putin since Bakhmut. Under Wagner, new prison fighters were given a fortnight of military training ...

Russia's use of the new hypersonic Oreshnik missile was a propaganda operation to scare the West, officials in Moscow have ...

private mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group plus troops from the separatist Donetsk People's Republic have been slowly battling their way toward the city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk province ...