Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed Wednesday.

The Kremlin said Wednesday that investigators were probing all possible scenarios surrounding the death last week of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, including premeditated murder. Prigozhin, 62, was buried on Tuesday in a private ceremony in his native Saint Petersburg, more than two months after he staged a short-lived mutiny that posed…

Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was formally confirmed dead on Sunday following genetic analysis, investigators said, as anger and questions over what caused his plane to crash earlier in the week continued to mount. Speculation that the Kremlin may have been involved in the crash has been rife, with the incident coming exactly two months…

Russian state-run news agencies on Wednesday said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia's army in June, was on the list of passengers of a plane that crashed.

The leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video published Monday that his group was making Africa "freer" and suggested he was on the continent. Prigozhin, a former Kremlin ally whose group rebelled against Russia's military leadership in June, has made few public appearances since the mutiny. The group maintains a…

Poland has arrested two Russians for allegedly distributing propaganda leaflets for mercenary group Wagner in the country's two biggest cities, Warsaw and Krakow, the interior minister said on Monday. "Both were charged with... espionage and arrested," minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Twitter, which has been rebranded as X. The Polish counter-intelligence agency named the two…

Head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his men will continue to fight in African countries, where they are already present.

Belarus said Thursday that instructors from mercenary force Wagner have begun training the ex-Soviet country's special forces, nearly a month after an aborted rebellion in Russia. "Despite the rain, it's hot at the Brestsky training ground," the Belarusian defence ministry said in a statement, releasing pictures of masked fighters in combat gear. "Over the course…

Residents of a Russian city at the heart of a brief rebellion against army top brass expressed relief on Sunday but also voiced some sympathy for the mutiny and questions about what exactly happened.

The leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner has agreed to go into exile in Belarus, the Kremlin said, after President Vladimir Putin was forced to accept an amnesty deal to halt a mutiny.

An "anti-terrorist operation regime" was still in force in Moscow on Sunday, a day after mutinous Wagner mercenaries threatened to storm the Russian capital, in a dramatic security crisis for President Vladimir Putin.