Since 2018, the notorious Russian mercenary company formerly known as Wagner has overseen security for top officials in the ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

But it is the Russians who are widely credited with helping the nation stave off collapse. Wagner, rebranded as the Africa Corps and placed under the umbrella of the Russian defense ministry after ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

20 years of collaboration At Prigozhin's side was military commander Dmitry Utkin. It was the former lieutenant-colonel of the Russian Special Forces, a notorious neo-Nazi with a Waffen-SS tattoo ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin was reportedly on board a private jet that crashed with no survivors. The crash occurred northwest of Moscow, close to the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia's Tver region.

Andrei Gurulev, a retired general and current lawmaker who has clashed with the mercenary leader, said Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin deserve “a bullet in the head.” And Nikita ...