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Russian air strikes kills nine, injures dozens in Syria's Idlib
Updated : 3 years ago IST
At least nine people have been killed and dozens injured after Russian fighter jets bombed Syria's rebel-controlled northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, CNN reported, citing the local White Helmets emergency response group.
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Putin-Wagner dispute expose "real crack": Blinken
Updated : 3 years ago IST
To a question on whether he knew Wagner will abort his plan, Blinken in an interview with Jonathan Karl for ABC's "This Week" said, "I don't know, and I'm not sure we'll fully know, or it may be something that unfolds in the coming - in the coming days and weeks. We simply don't have a cl
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Wagner mercenaries leaves Russia's Lipetsk region
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"Units of PMC "Wagner," which stopped the day before in the Lipetsk region, left the territory of the region," it said on Telegram.
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Belarusian President mediated to avert Russia bloodbath due to his long ac
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"You will likely ask me why precisely President Lukashenko [became the mediator]? The thing is that Alexander Grigoryevich has known Prigozhin personally for a long time, about 20 years, and this was his personal initiative which was coordinated with President Putin," the Kremlin official
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Russia drops charges against Wagner chief Prigozhin after his forces halt
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S Peskov said Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and the fighters who rebelled with him would not be prosecuted by law given their "service at the front."
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Wagner mercenary chief to move to Belarus under deal brokered by Lukashenk
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has decided to stop his march to Moscow after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, reported Al Jazeera on Saturday.
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US to stay 'in close coordination' with allies amid Russia crisis
Updated : 3 years ago IST
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with the Foreign Ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the EU, saying they will stay 'in close coordination' amid the Russia crisis.
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"President Putin is deeply mistaken, we are patriots": Wagner group head
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"Regarding the betrayal of the motherland, the president is deeply mistaken," Yevgeny Prigozhin said.
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"Whoever chooses path of evil destroys himself": Zelenskyy after Wagner Gr
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Slamming Moscow hours after the Wagner group launched a rebellion against Russian military facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that everyone who chooses the path of evil "destroys" himself.
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Presidents of France, Poland "monitoring" situation in Russia
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Poland's President Andrzej Duda said that the course of events beyond their eastern border is being "monitored."
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"Armed mutiny" by Wagner group is "stab in back of our country," says Russ
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Putin's statement comes after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the alleged head of the Wagner mercenary group, in a series of recordings released on social media on Saturday, announced that his troops had taken control of military facilities in two Russian cities.
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Russian Defence Ministry urges Wagner forces to return to "points of perma
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Russian Ministry of Defence noted that Russia has already provided such assistance to all the fighters and commanders who applied for it. It further said that it would "guarantee everyone's safety."
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