Mon 26 June 2023: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday evening said Wagner chief Yeveniy Prigozhin’s uprising was “doomed to fail” and that the revolt left the country “united.” Addressing the nation in a televised speech on Monday evening for the first time since Prigozhin halted his march on Moscow, Putin said that “the armed rebellion would have been […]
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Mon 26 June 2023: Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called of his march on Moscow hours before receiving threats from Russian intelligence services that they would harm the families of the mercenary group leaders, British intelligence sources told the Telegraph newspaper. On June 24, Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt to Moscow after taking control of […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Russia’s crisis involving an attempted mercenary revolt against the Kremlin exposed “real cracks” in Putin’s authority after he was forced into an amnesty deal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. The uprising by the Wagner private mercenary group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin over the weekend marked “a direct […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Scooter, a seven-year-old Chinese crested dog, was voted the champion of the 2023 World’s Ugliest Dog Competition on June 23, beating out seven other dogs. For the past five decades, the world-renowned event has been presented as part of the Sonoma-Marin fair in Petaluma, California. Scooter received a monetary reward of […]
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Sun 25 June 2023: Online publisher Vice Media will be sold to a consortium led by Fortress Investment Group after the bankruptcy court approved its $350m bid on Friday. The investor group, which includes Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital, bumped up its offer to $350m for all of Vice’s assets and some liabilities, from […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: The Ukrainian army says it has made ground gains in the eastern Donetsk region, driving back occupying Russian troops. “The eastern grouping of troops began an offensive in several sections at the same time today,” Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram. She said in the process, Russian troops had […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: The Kremlin has denied Vladimir Putin has fled Moscow by plane after claiming Russia is ‘facing treason’ from members of the mutinous Wagner group. One of several planes that the Russian president uses for official visits took off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport at 2.16pm local time (1216 BST) and then headed north-west. There have been numerous […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: The governor of Russia’s Lipetsk province says the Wagner mercenary group has entered the region, AP reports. The Lipetsk region is about 360km (225 miles) south of Moscow and much closer to the capital than Rostov-on-Don, where Wagner forces appeared during the night. Authorities “are taking all necessary measures to ensure […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: According to published statistics, the government has confiscated millions of dangerous and illegal vapes over the last three years, but experts warn that this is just the “tip of the iceberg” and that a “tsunami” of these items is actually pouring into the UK markets. According to records received by 125 […]
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Sat 24 June 2023: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the deployment of troops to support the Kremlin against the armed uprising by the Wagner mercenary group. “Fighters from the Ministry of Defence and the National Guard of the Chechen Republic have already left for the tense areas. We will do everything to preserve Russia’s […]
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