Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The Wagner boss said the mercenary group would hand over control of Bakhmut to the Russian Defense Ministry by June 1. “If PMC Wagner cannot hand the positions because the Russian army is not ...

“We have completely discontinued the recruitment of prisoners into Wagner PMC. To those who work for us currently, all obligations are being fulfilled.” The Russian oligarch did not give any ...

the first Russian military gains in months. “No units other than Wagner PMC operatives were involved in the storming of Soledar,” he claimed. Wagner’s performance is Prigozhin’s route to ...

The Wagner Group, a Russia-based private military company (PMC), is more than what it seems. It is also, as I testified before the United Kingdom's House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee ...

Doxsee said Russia's purported ban on private military companies (PMC) like the Wagner Group allows the government a necessary distance from its operations. "They are technically all operating in ...

“We are recruiting fighters from all regions of Russia. “Don’t whack off, go work for PMC Wagner.” Then a phone number appears on the screen, which is said to be associated with Wagner ...

"It is difficult to say whether this was a planned destruction of the Wagner PMC, but the fact [is] the Russian military command uses the Wagnerites as living meat," Kovalenko said. "Prigozhin is ...

It is the second time Russian mercenaries have fallen into ... although the former commander of the 13th Wagner PMC unit claimed that the losses were nearly 100 people. The rebels reported a ...

“With no significant achievements on the battlefield, the Russian Armed Forces and ‘Wagner Group’ PMC are increasingly attempting to find someone to blame for the defeats. They shift the ...

“I think that PMC Wagner, in itself, as a structure, most likely won’t exist,” Aleksandr Borodai, a member of the Russian Parliament who briefly served as a Moscow-installed proxy leader in ...