NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The most Googled name on Wednesday night in America â other than the 38-year-old GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy â was Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian warlord who commanded the murderous mercenary squad called The Wagner Group. Yevgeny Prigozhinâs reported sudden death in a plane crash near the […]
Wagner warlordâs reported death is straight out of Putinâs blood-spilling playbook
Putin Claims over 270,000 âVoluntaryâ Russian Military Recruits After Wagner Leadership Collapse
Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted on Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of volunteers are rushing to join the Russian military and fight in Ukraine. He portrayed the partial mobilization order he signed in September 2022 as one of the most successful recruiting drives in history, bringing a quarter of a million fresh troops into the
Who Is Yevgeny Prigozhin? The Wagner Group Mercenary Boss Backstabbing Putin
The one-time buddy of Vladimir Putin, mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has fully turned his back on his Kremlin boss, seizing control of Russiaâs southern military HQ Rostov-on-Don with the threat of 25,000 fighters ready for insurrection.His challenge was a bold one and the most significant threat to Putinâs power during his entire 23-year reign. In
Putin Pardons Wife of Russiaâs âWalter Whiteâ After Hubby Joins Wagner
The wife of a convicted drug dealer dubbed Russiaâs âWalter Whiteâ has received a pardon from Vladimir Putin after her husband joined the mercenary Wagner Group, according to a report.St. Petersburg physics teacher Diana Gribovskaya and her veterinarian husband, Dmitry Karavaichik, were convicted of manufacturing and distributing amphetamine in 2018. Karavaichik insisted that the drugs
MSNBC’s Wagner: Chinese Spy Balloon Is Potential Security Threat, But Reaction from Right Is Seen as ‘Nativist’ and ‘Isolationist’
On Fridayâs broadcast of MSNBCâs âAlex Wagner Tonight,â host Alex Wagner reacted to the Chinese spy balloon by stating that âthere has been a degree of alarm on the part of the right as far as it concerns this balloon and China in general that I think a lot of people see as unnecessarily nativist
Wagner Boss Has the Chutzpah to Claim Theyâve Done Nothing Wrong
The founder of the private mercenary group Wagner has made the audacious claim that his band of killersâbulked up with murderers, rapists and other convicts sprung from prisonâhave done nothing in Ukraine that would deserve to be sanctioned. In a comment to the Wall Street Journal for an article about sanctions, the group responded âon