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    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      News in-depthWagner Group
      Wagner mastermind dies in crash alongside Prigozhin

      Dmitry Utkin was brutal commander who coined name of Russian paramilitary group

      A makeshift memorial to Dmitry Utkin in front of the Wagner office in Novosibirsk, Russia
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Blast rocks Russian military optics plant near Moscow

      Incident follows a string of similar explosions at industrial sites across Russia in recent months

      Emergency workers put out a fire next to a destroyed building in Sergiev Posad, Russia
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
      Military briefing: Ukraine switches to artillery power for eastern push

      After heavy losses in early counteroffensive, Kyiv changed tactics to pound Russian defences and clear path for infantry

      A Ukrainian soldier in a camouflaged tank on the Bakhmut front line
    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Russian general attacks ‘senior bosses’ after being fired

      Former commander says he challenged military leaders in sign of high tensions following Wagner insurrection

      Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Valery Gerasimov, commander of Russia’s invasion force
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Wagner fighters start handing over their weapons

      Yevgeny Prigozhin’s militia agreed to disarm after aborted insurrection

      Howitzers, which were handed over by the Wagner mercenary group to Russia’s regular armed forces, according to Russian Defence Ministry, at an undisclosed location
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia has lost half its combat capability in Ukraine, says UK armed forces chief

      Admiral Sir Tony Radakin rejects concerns that Kyiv’s counter-offensive is advancing slowly

      A Ukrainian soldier walks past a destroyed Russian tank
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Putin says Wagner paramilitaries paid billions by Russian state

      Militia founder Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed to be in Belarus after deal to end mutiny

      A civilian in the street talks to soldiers inside the armed vehicle
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Prigozhin still faces charges, says Russian state media

      Reports at odds with earlier promises from Kremlin that charges against warlord would be dropped

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      News in-depthRussian insurrection
      Putin’s generals vulnerable despite surviving revolt

      Defence minister and army chief seen as ‘lame ducks’ but could stay on as president’s loyalists

      Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Shoigu
    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      FT’s top stories on Wagner
      ‘Get out of our way’: how Prigozhin’s march on Moscow failed

      Crackly voice in post on Telegram heralded start of first armed uprising in Russia for three decades

      Yevgeny Prigozhin poses for a selfie with a local in Rostov on Saturday, after his uprising failed
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      ‘Stream’ and ‘Torch’: the Gazprom-backed militias fighting in Ukraine

      Russia’s state gas company has recruited, equipped and paid security guards to join the invasion

      Erast Yakovenko, a member of the Potok battalion (Gazprom) and the insignia of another Gazprom militia unit Fakel
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Pro-Ukraine fighters ‘liberate’ village in Russia’s Belgorod region

      Kyiv denies direct involvement but says Russian fighters are seeking to create ‘security zone’ near border

      Soldiers from the Free Russia Legion in Irpin, Ukraine, last year
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Wagner chief blames Moscow for faltering war effort

      Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to pull out of Bakhmut unless Russia sends more weapons

      Yevgeny Prigozhin yells at camera
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      ‘We need every man’: Ukraine’s troops prepare for counter-offensive against Russia

      The Financial Times joins units training near the frontline as Kyiv faces ‘decisive moment’ in war

      Dnipropetrovsk Territorial Defence troops on an exercise
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Putin critic jailed for 25 years by Russia court for ‘treason’

      British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza likens his case to show trials of Stalin era

      Vladimir Kara-Murza inside a defendants’ cage during his sentencing in Moscow on Monday
    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT’s top stories on Wagner
      Russian mercenary Prigozhin falls foul of Kremlin old guard

      Wagner Group’s influence wanes as Moscow’s military establishment reasserts control

      Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of a Wagner fighter who died in Ukraine
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      News in-depthUkraine military briefing
      Military briefing: Russia prepares Ukraine spring offensive

      Kyiv’s allies expect Moscow to alter combat tactics and employ more air power in planned attack

      Ukrainian servicemen gather around a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle outside the frontline town of Bakhmut
    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russian forces in ‘full control’ of Soledar, says defence ministry

      Kremlin claims to have captured eastern Ukrainian town at centre of frontline fighting

      Satellite image showing a destroyed school and other buildings in southern Soledar, eastern Ukraine
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Russia demotes ‘General Armageddon’ after battlefield failures

      Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October as head of Ukraine campaign

      Valery Gerasimov next to Vladimir Putin
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russian forces may have scored rare success in battle near Bakhmut

      Assault on town of Soledar could deliver Moscow its first military victory since last summer

      Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, of the Ukrainian army, gives instructions in a shelter in Soledar
    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      ‘Untrainable’: Russian army faces backlash over deaths of conscripts

      Missile strike in Russian-occupied Makiivka revives questions over military’s capacity to learn from past mistakes

      People lay flowers near the Eternal Flame memorial in Samara, Russia following the missile attack
    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia admits to deadly outcome of Ukrainian strike on military barracks

      Defence ministry says attack in Moscow-occupied Makiivka killed 63 troops but Russian war bloggers claim hundreds died

      The scene of the attack in the town of Makiivka
    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin declares martial law in occupied regions of Ukraine

      Tougher security measures include ‘economic mobilisation’ in much of western and southern Russia to boost war effort

      A Russian troop carrier in Kherson
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin says Russia launched Ukraine strikes over Crimea bridge explosion

      At least 10 killed in first attack on Kyiv in months while other cities also hit

      A selection of photos of the Russian missile strikes in Kyiv on Monday
    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      FT MagazineGillian Tett
      Mobilisation explodes the myth of Putin’s united Russia

      Despite outrage over minority soldiers forced to join the war, rebellion remains a distant prospect

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