Wagner fighters, purportedly in Soledar’s salt mines. Via social media When the Ukrainian army began rotating fresh units into eastern Ukraine in mid-December, the 46th Air Mobile Brigade drew t...
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Why Are Mercenaries Driving Russia’s Best T-90 Tank?
A T-90M that the Ukrainian army captured. Ukrainian army photo It seems that Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group is operating Russia’s best tank, the T-90M. That would be yet another wrinkle in th...
A Fierce Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Is Routing Russian Mercenaries In One Symbolic Eastern Town
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade around Bakhmut. Photo via the Ukrainian general staff When Ukrainian forces launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August and earl...
Ukrainian Forces Photobombed Russian Mercenaries—With Rockets
US M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers fire salvoes during the “African … [+] Lion” military exercise in the Grier Labouihi region in southeastern Morocco o...
How Desperate Is Russia For Good Troops? It’s Hiring Mercenaries. Even The Law-Breakers.
The smoking wreckage of a Russian Su-25 in Donbas on May 22, 2022. Photo via social media Ukrainian air-defense troops firing a Stinger man-portable missile shot down a Russian Su-25 attack jet over t...
Russia Sends More Mercenaries To Fight In Ukraine’s East, Per U.S. And U.K. Officials
Topline Russia has sent more than 1,000 mercenaries from the private military company known as the Wagner Group to fight in eastern Ukraine, according to British and U.S. officials—the latest maneuver...
More Russian Oligarchs, Businesses And Mercenary Assassins Targeted By New U.K. Sanctions
Topline The U.K. government on Thursday announced sanctions on 65 more Russian people and businesses to “cut off vital industries fueling Putin’s war machine,” the latest in a series of escalating san...