Putin suggests Prigozhin’s plane blown up by hand grenades on board

Putin suggests Prigozhin’s plane blown up by hand grenades on board

The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board in August.

  • byGuy Faulconbridge andVladimir Soldatkin

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Inside the ambitious mercenary outfit emerging as a successor to Prigozhin’s Wagner group

Inside the ambitious mercenary outfit emerging as a successor to Prigozhin’s Wagner group

Redoubt is a military intelligence-controlled group that started life as a cosy arrangement between Kremlin-linked oligarchs and senior army officers.

  • byRoland Oliphant
Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s grave revealed after private burial

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s grave revealed after private burial

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the president would not attend the service. The Russian leader had decried the armed rebellion in June as “treason” and “a stab in the back”.

Russia will determine cause of Prigozhin’s mystery crash after finding black box

Russia will determine cause of Prigozhin’s mystery crash after finding black box

Russian investigators recovered the black box after the crash,which Western officials strongly believe was no accident two months after Wagner’s attempted mutiny.

  • byAbbie Cheeseman
Prigozhin gone,Putin orders oath of allegiance from mercenaries

Prigozhin gone,Putin orders oath of allegiance from mercenaries

Trying to wrest control of Wagner Group’s shadow army,the Russian president wants all mercenaries to “strictly follow the orders of commanders and superiors”.

  • byJames Kilner andJoe Barnes
The head has been cut off the snake. But what will Wagner do next?

The head has been cut off the snake. But what will Wagner do next?

Reuters has reported that only the day before the plane crash,a Russian official visited Libya to reassure allies there that Wagner mercenaries would remain – but under Moscow’s control.

  • bySherryn Groch
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As Wagner boss Prigozhin’s plane crashed,Putin hailed the heroes of Russia

As Wagner boss Prigozhin’s plane crashed,Putin hailed the heroes of Russia

In Kursk,about 500km south of Moscow,a smiling Vladimir Putin appeared in a well choreographed event to commemorate “all citizens”.

  • byRob Harris
The shocking and utterly unsurprising end of Yevgeny Prigozhin

The shocking and utterly unsurprising end of Yevgeny Prigozhin

The Wagner leader’s plane crash is another reminder of revenge served Vladimir Putin-style.

  • byRob Harris
A timeline of the stand-off between the Kremlin and Yevgeny Prigozhin

A timeline of the stand-off between the Kremlin and Yevgeny Prigozhin

The oligarch emerged first as a supporter of Vladimir Putin then a critic of the Kremlin’s handling of the war effort in Ukraine.

  • byGaya Gupta
‘Justice and happiness’:Yevgeny Prigozhin appears in fresh recruiting video

‘Justice and happiness’:Yevgeny Prigozhin appears in fresh recruiting video

“The temperature is +50 – everything as we like,” the former mutineer said in a video some suspect was filmed in Africa.

  • byMaxim Rodionov