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  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    News in-depthWagner Group
    Wagner mastermind dies in crash alongside Prigozhin

    Dmitry Utkin was brutal commander who coined name of Russian paramilitary group

    A makeshift memorial to Dmitry Utkin in front of the Wagner office in Novosibirsk, Russia
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Blast rocks Russian military optics plant near Moscow

    Incident follows a string of similar explosions at industrial sites across Russia in recent months

    Emergency workers put out a fire next to a destroyed building in Sergiev Posad, Russia
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: military strategies
    Military briefing: Ukraine switches to artillery power for eastern push

    After heavy losses in early counteroffensive, Kyiv changed tactics to pound Russian defences and clear path for infantry

    A Ukrainian soldier in a camouflaged tank on the Bakhmut front line
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Russian insurrection
    Russian general attacks ‘senior bosses’ after being fired

    Former commander says he challenged military leaders in sign of high tensions following Wagner insurrection

    Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Valery Gerasimov, commander of Russia’s invasion force
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    Russian insurrection
    Wagner fighters start handing over their weapons

    Yevgeny Prigozhin’s militia agreed to disarm after aborted insurrection

    Howitzers, which were handed over by the Wagner mercenary group to Russia’s regular armed forces, according to Russian Defence Ministry, at an undisclosed location
  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia has lost half its combat capability in Ukraine, says UK armed forces chief

    Admiral Sir Tony Radakin rejects concerns that Kyiv’s counter-offensive is advancing slowly

    A Ukrainian soldier walks past a destroyed Russian tank
  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    Russian insurrection
    Putin says Wagner paramilitaries paid billions by Russian state

    Militia founder Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed to be in Belarus after deal to end mutiny

    A civilian in the street talks to soldiers inside the armed vehicle
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    Russian insurrection
    Prigozhin still faces charges, says Russian state media

    Reports at odds with earlier promises from Kremlin that charges against warlord would be dropped

    Yevgeny Prigozhin
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    News in-depthRussian insurrection
    Putin’s generals vulnerable despite surviving revolt

    Defence minister and army chief seen as ‘lame ducks’ but could stay on as president’s loyalists

    Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Shoigu
  • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
    FT’s top stories on Wagner
    ‘Get out of our way’: how Prigozhin’s march on Moscow failed

    Crackly voice in post on Telegram heralded start of first armed uprising in Russia for three decades

    Yevgeny Prigozhin poses for a selfie with a local in Rostov on Saturday, after his uprising failed
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Stream’ and ‘Torch’: the Gazprom-backed militias fighting in Ukraine

    Russia’s state gas company has recruited, equipped and paid security guards to join the invasion

    Erast Yakovenko, a member of the Potok battalion (Gazprom) and the insignia of another Gazprom militia unit Fakel
  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Pro-Ukraine fighters ‘liberate’ village in Russia’s Belgorod region

    Kyiv denies direct involvement but says Russian fighters are seeking to create ‘security zone’ near border

    Soldiers from the Free Russia Legion in Irpin, Ukraine, last year
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Wagner chief blames Moscow for faltering war effort

    Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to pull out of Bakhmut unless Russia sends more weapons

    Yevgeny Prigozhin yells at camera
  • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    ‘We need every man’: Ukraine’s troops prepare for counter-offensive against Russia

    The Financial Times joins units training near the frontline as Kyiv faces ‘decisive moment’ in war

    Dnipropetrovsk Territorial Defence troops on an exercise
  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Putin critic jailed for 25 years by Russia court for ‘treason’

    British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza likens his case to show trials of Stalin era

    Vladimir Kara-Murza inside a defendants’ cage during his sentencing in Moscow on Monday
  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    FT’s top stories on Wagner
    Russian mercenary Prigozhin falls foul of Kremlin old guard

    Wagner Group’s influence wanes as Moscow’s military establishment reasserts control

    Yevgeny Prigozhin attends the funeral of a Wagner fighter who died in Ukraine
  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    News in-depthUkraine military briefing
    Military briefing: Russia prepares Ukraine spring offensive

    Kyiv’s allies expect Moscow to alter combat tactics and employ more air power in planned attack

    Ukrainian servicemen gather around a BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle outside the frontline town of Bakhmut
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian forces in ‘full control’ of Soledar, says defence ministry

    Kremlin claims to have captured eastern Ukrainian town at centre of frontline fighting

    Satellite image showing a destroyed school and other buildings in southern Soledar, eastern Ukraine
  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia demotes ‘General Armageddon’ after battlefield failures

    Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October as head of Ukraine campaign

    Valery Gerasimov next to Vladimir Putin
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian forces may have scored rare success in battle near Bakhmut

    Assault on town of Soledar could deliver Moscow its first military victory since last summer

    Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, of the Ukrainian army, gives instructions in a shelter in Soledar
  • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Untrainable’: Russian army faces backlash over deaths of conscripts

    Missile strike in Russian-occupied Makiivka revives questions over military’s capacity to learn from past mistakes

    People lay flowers near the Eternal Flame memorial in Samara, Russia following the missile attack
  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia admits to deadly outcome of Ukrainian strike on military barracks

    Defence ministry says attack in Moscow-occupied Makiivka killed 63 troops but Russian war bloggers claim hundreds died

    The scene of the attack in the town of Makiivka
  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin declares martial law in occupied regions of Ukraine

    Tougher security measures include ‘economic mobilisation’ in much of western and southern Russia to boost war effort

    A Russian troop carrier in Kherson
  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin says Russia launched Ukraine strikes over Crimea bridge explosion

    At least 10 killed in first attack on Kyiv in months while other cities also hit

    A selection of photos of the Russian missile strikes in Kyiv on Monday
  • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Mobilisation explodes the myth of Putin’s united Russia

    Despite outrage over minority soldiers forced to join the war, rebellion remains a distant prospect

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