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Saint Petersburg, Aug 29 (AFP/APP): A private ceremony was held to commemorate Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, his spokespeople said Tuesday, urging mourners to pay their respects at a cemetery in his native city Saint Petersburg. Last week Prigozhin died in a private jet crash […]

Moscow, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): 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 plane that crashed in […]

Tripoli, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): Russian military officials including Moscow’s deputy defence minister arrived in Libya on Tuesday after receiving an invitation from pro-Moscow military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Haftar, who backs the country’s eastern administration, is close to Russia’s private Wagner mercenary group, whose troops guard […]

MOSCOW Aug 17 (Online): Tens of thousands of Muscovites are taking part in combat operations in Ukraine, the Russian capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Wednesday, giving a rare estimate of the forces deployed. Russia and Ukraine rarely communicate on the total number of troops […]

Kubinka, Russia, Aug 16 (AFP/APP): In the Moscow region’s Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armoured vehicle. “It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working,” […]

Lviv, Ukraine, Aug 15 (AFP/APP): Russian missiles killed three people in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk early Tuesday, the latest deadly strike on the west of the country, which has seen an uptick in aerial attacks. The barrage of nearly three dozen missiles also tore […]