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The National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, announced estimated casualty numbers for the Russian private military company Wagner Group. It is believed that Wagner has suffered more than 30,000 casualties with roughly 9,000 of those being deaths. Wagner, run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has seen action as one of the main combat arms during the frontline fighting in...

Ukraine has announced that it will be pressing criminal charges on Wagner group boss "Yevginy Prigozhin" for violation of Ukrainian territorial integrity and for aggression on the battlefield. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine named Andriy Kostin believes that Wagner and the soldiers they recruited are responsible for multiple war crimes across the wars many fronts. They look to ensure that all...

Strong reactions have sparked from Serbia after Russian-state news outlet RIA Novosti released a video claiming to show Serbian volunteers training and preparing to fight in the Ukrainian Oblast of Zaporizhzhia, with their trainers reportedly being mercenaries under Russian-aligned Wagner PMC (Private Military Company) Group. The same RIA report claimed volunteers from Macedonia and Poland, among other countries, were...

U.S. satellite photos appear to have captured images of Russian railcars traveling between North Korea and Russia, carrying weapons to supply Russian forces in their ongoing war in Ukraine. In a Friday press briefing, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that as a result of international sanctions and export controls, Russia has been searching for arms and...

To fill their ranks, the infamous Wagner PMC recently began recruiting from Russian prisons. Well, reports are coming out that claim that some of these former prisoners who joined up with Wagner have recently deserted. They were on their way to the frontline in Donetsk Oblast to join a Wagner unit in the area. The former prisoners are now armed and...