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The mutiny led by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was a direct challenge to Russian leader Vladimir Putin's authority and many say has significantly weakened his position within the country

Yevgeny Prigozhin, boss of Wagner Group,launched an apparent mutiny against Moscow last month and experts now claim the decision was largely motivated by his health

The Prime Minister asked his officials to leave the room so he and the Ukrainian President could hold one-to-one private talks

Critics are often quick to ridicule “wish-fulfilment marathons”, coffee-ground fortune telling, astrology courses and other forms of metaphysics popular among women.

Pro-Moscow sources claimed to have successfully "evacuated" one Storm Shadow missile from Ukraine as Russian weapons experts are set to dissect and analyse the weapon

Since launching a High Court case and taking political asylum in Latvia, Igor Sychev says he has been the subject of several assassination attempts and numerous death threats

The near misses between US Air Force drones and Russian jet fights is just the latest incident in a long line over eastern Syria where 900 troops are still based

James Smith, from the Wirral, was working with a team to clear a number of landmines about 20 metres away from Russian trenches when he stepped on a landmine

Vladimir Putin has raided museums and rusting storage depots to send Joseph Stalin’s old T-54s and T-55s to fight another day and videos show the rejuvenated Soviet tanks crossing territory

Ramzan Kadyrov has responded to rumours he is close to death as a result of kidney or liver problems - and says a peculiar new video is proof "he is still alive"

The Kremlin had previously given Yevgeny Prigozhin a pass, likely due to his service in Ukraine, but Kyiv now believes the FSB has been ordered to kill the chief mutineer

Kristina Baikova, who was the vice-president of Loko Bank at the age of just 28, fell out of the apartment window on in Moscow on the evening of June 23

A number of senior Wagner Group executives and a handful of oligarchs have been earmarked for the Russian president’s hit squads, it is believed

It is alleged that General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin is being held at the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre over a plot to oust defence minister Sergei Shoigu

Flight tracking information shows two planes arrived in Belarus from Russia, amid Yevgeny Prigozhin’s exile rumours following his failed coup attempt

As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end

Russia's defence ministry claims to have intercepted two British Typhoon jets accompanied by an RC-135 near to its border over the Black Sea before the foreign planes turned around and 'distanced themselves'

On Saturday, the leader of the Wagner Company Yevgeny Prigozhin and his 25,000 mercenaries stormed Rostov-on-Don in the south of the country with plans to march on Moscow and depose Vladimir Putin's top military brass

US Secretary of Sate Anthony Blinken has claimed there are 'cracks emerging' in Vladimir Putin's Russia after an armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group

A senior government official says the UK must prepare for a 'whole range of different scenarios' following Wagner Group's failed coup attempt

Wagner group chef Yevgeny Prigozhin, who in 2018 was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US, was last seen getting into a car in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, as he and got a hero's welcome

Following Wagner Group mercenaries' dramatic U-turn miles outside Moscow yesterday and its chef Yevgeny Prigozhin leaving for Belarus, Vladimir Putin has spoken to the media

Dr Patricia Lewis from the International Security Programme also responded to claims the mercenaries' uprising was staged with Putin in on it from the beginning

Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would never allow Wagner's 'crazy criminals' to succeed, prior to the mercenary group's dramatic U-turn on Sunday

Vladimir Putin's soldiers are reportedly beginning to flee their posts and units around Ukraine in support of the Wagner Groups' rebels who were heading for Moscow