Kremlin Threats Against Families of Wagner Leaders Prompted Prigozhin’s Stand Down: UK Intelligence Services
The decision to turn back from Moscow followed threats against the families of Wagner leaders from the Kremlin, UK security sources claimed.
The decision to turn back from Moscow followed threats against the families of Wagner leaders from the Kremlin, UK security sources claimed.
Former CIA director and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin “should be very careful around open windows” after he called off the armed rebellion he launched against Russia’s leaders.
Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the armed rebellion from the Wagner Group exposed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “lost credibility with his own people.”
Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believes a “majority” of Republicans believe the United States should “stand by Ukraine.”
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the armed rebellion led by head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin showed “a crack in the strength of Vladimir Putin at home.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the armed rebellion led by the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin shows “cracks emerge” in Russian leadership.
The exile of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to Belarus could be a smokescreen for a surprise attack on Ukraine, a former UK army chief warned.
Under the deal announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and charges against him will be dropped.
Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko claims he struck a deal with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin to stop the group’s march on Moscow.
The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to surrender amid claims of a coup attempt against the Kremlin and warnings that his forces are marching on Moscow.
“Armed rebellion” against Moscow is treason and betrayal which Putin will “react harshly” to with “inevitable punishment”, he said.
The government of Russia confirmed late Friday that it had opened an investigation into and filed charges against the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, for calling for “armed rebellion” against Moscow.
UK military intelligence said Russia have taken advantage along the southern front in Ukraine with the deployment of attack helicopters.
Biden is dramatically shifting the U.S. strategy to deter Russian nuclear attack from the traditional stance, experts told Breitbart News.
French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly asked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to invite him to the BRICS summit in Johannesburg this August, in a June 3 phone conversation that was made public this week.
The United Nations Security Council confirmed that the Russian government had begun to, once again, ship oil to North Korea.
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko announced on Wednesday that his country has begun receiving Russian tactical nuclear weapons and “everything is ready” for their deployment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission of loss, but Ukraine says they’ve destroyed twice as many.
Speaking at a splashy award ceremony at the Kremlin on Monday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin invoked the National Day holiday and appealed to his subjects’ sense of “patriotism” during a “difficult time.”
Musician Travis Michael Leake, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Moscow on charges of running a drug trafficking ring “involving young people.”
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says Ukraine’s Zelensky will not be invited to the September G20 summit in New Delhi.
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the U.S. should arm Ukraine until they win the war against Russia.
Russia claims a television broadcast showing Vladimir Putin declaring martial law is actually an A.I.-generated fake deployed by hackers.
Russians living in over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations on Sunday to support jailed dissident Alexei Navalny on his birthday. It was Navalny’s third birthday since he narrowly survived an assassination attempt in Siberia, recuperated in Germany, and was thrown in prison upon arriving back in Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that he should have previously listened to Eastern Europe regarding the threat Russia posed.
Wednesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reacted to the arrest warrant issued for him by the Russian government while making the case for Ukraine winning its war against Russia as a priority for the region.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said Wagner is not capable of staging a coup against the Kremlin, following speculation that he may seek to overthrow and replace Vladimir Putin.
Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer to Joe Biden who accused him of sexual assault during the 2020 election, has now defected to Russia.
The government of South Africa published a notice on Monday that it would grant diplomatic immunity to all attendees of the BRICS summit in August.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba published a live video on Facebook this weekend defending the Chinese Communist Party from allegations that a special delegation from Beijing that visited Kyiv this month pressured Ukraine to cede occupied territories to Russia.
There could be “nuclear weapons for everyone” who wants to join the Union between Russia and Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko said.
Russia and Belarus signed a deal on Thursday formalizing the procedure for deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory.
Alexander Shiplyuk, director of the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM) in Siberia, was quietly arrested last August and held without charges ever since.
Wagner chief warned of another Russian revolution akin to that of 1917 unless the strategy of the war in Ukraine is drastically altered
Ukraine denied responsibility after fighting broke out in Russia’s Belgorod region, saying it is the work of anti-Putin freedom fighters.
On Monday, MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former President Donald Trump “loves communism.”
Vladimir Putin should help Irish terrorist organisations attack Buckingham Palace, a Russian TV pundit has declared.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned Putin that Russia will not outlast the West in Ukraine, and that support for the Zelensky admin is “not going away”.
The United States has launched a social media campaign aimed at recruiting spies from Russia, reports on Monday have suggested.