The U.K. announced Wednesday it will declare Russia's Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization, saying it remains a threat to global security even after the death of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Poland and other front-line NATO nations bordering Belarus called on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday to "immediately expel" thousands of Russian Wagner Group fighters from his country, amid mounting concern that the mercenaries are seeking to trigger border violence aimed at destabilizing NATO's eastern flank.
The Tass news service reported that the Russian Investigative Committee confirmed through forensic identification the death of 62-year-old Yevgeny Prigozhin, a one-time confidant of President Vladimir Putin who staged an abortive mutiny in June.
One of Ukraine's most celebrated and decorated fighter pilots, known by his call-sign "Juice," was among those killed over the weekend in an apparent training accident, the Ukrainian Air Force revealed Sunday.
Top Kremlin officials on Friday angrily rejected suggestions that the death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was an assassination ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite widespread belief in the West that the Russian leader ordered a hit against his most powerful rival.