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Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, around his factory which produces school meals, outside St. Petersburg, Russia on Sept. 20, 2010. Prigozhin made his name as the profane and brutal mercenary boss who mounted an armed rebellion that was the most severe and shocking challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Prigozhin’s purported demise seems intended to send a clear message to potential Kremlin foes

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A Norwegian air force F-16 fighter lands at a Turkish air base in the Central Anatolian Turkish city of Konya on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004. NATO-member Norway will donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine whose forces are embroiled in a difficult counteroffensive against Russia, Norwegian broadcasters NRK and TV2 said Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

NATO-member Norway to donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, becoming third country to do so: Reports

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, top, serves food to then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at Prigozhin's restaurant outside Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 11, 2011. Prigozhin made his name as the profane and brutal mercenary boss who mounted an armed rebellion that was the most severe and shocking challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. (AP Photo/File)

Wagner mercenary leader, Russian mutineer, ‘Putin’s chef’: The many sides of Yevgeny Prigozhin

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In this image taken from video released by Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel on Aug. 21, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location. Prigozhin made his name as the profane and brutal mercenary boss who mounted an armed rebellion that was the most severe and shocking challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP, File)

Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin challenged the Kremlin in a brief mutiny

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, looks from a military vehicle leaving an area of the HQ of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. Putin recounted to Kommersant his own version of a Kremlin event attended by 35 Wagner commanders, including the group's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on June 29. That meeting came just five days after Prigozhin and his troops staged a stunning but short-lived rebellion against Moscow authorities. (AP Photo, File)

Russian mercenary leader Prigozhin, who led abortive coup, thought to be on crashed private jet

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, June 24, 2023, the top Russian military commander in Ukraine, Gen. Sergei Surovikin records his appeal to armed rebellion at the unknown location. Gen. Surovikin, a former commander of Russia's forces in Ukraine who was linked to the leader of an armed rebellion, has been dismissed from his job as chief of the air force, according to Russian state media. The report Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, came after weeks of uncertainty about his fate following the short-lived uprising.(Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

A top Russian general linked to the head of a rebellious mercenary group is reportedly dismissed

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In this image taken from video released by Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company speaks to a camera at an unknown location. (Razgruzka_Vagnera telegram channel via AP)

Private jet crash in Russia kills 10; Wagner chief Prigozhin was on passenger list

By Dasha Litvinova Tallinn - Associated Press

Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, right, and Troels Lund Poulsen attend a press conference in the Ministry of Defense in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2023. Jakob Ellemann-Jensen — the deputy prime minister in the Danish three-party coalition — said he will act as economy minister while Troels Lund Poulsen who acted as defense minister while Ellemann-Jensen was on a five-month leave of absence for health reasons, returned to the defense ministry. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Danish defense minister swaps places with economy minister days after donation of F-16s to Ukraine

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Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures as he meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023. Xi will attend next week's summit of the BRICS nations in Johannesburg, to be followed by a state visit to South Africa, the Foreign Ministry said Friday, AUg. 18, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s Putin stays away over arrest warrant as leaders of emerging economies meet in South Africa

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

In this image released by Sirena telegram channel on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, a Russian warplane is burning on the Soltsy air base in the Novgorod region in northwestern Russia. Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv's military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine media claimed Tuesday. The attacks on Russian airfields on Saturday and Monday destroyed two Russian bombers and damaged two other aircraft, according to Ukrainska Pravda, as the war approaches its 18-month milestone. (Sirena telegram channel via AP)

Ukraine media say Kyiv saboteurs were behind drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

Illustration on U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Republican isolationism: Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again

By Clifford D. May

Investigators work at the site of the place where the downed Ukrainian drone fell in Krasnogorsk, just outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow region, said that two Ukrainian drones were shot down by air defenses on western outskirts of the Russian capital early Tuesday. (Moscow News Agency via AP)

Russia launches 3-hour drone attack on Odesa as Ukrainian drones target Moscow again

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Danish Members of Parliament after his speech in the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, Monday Aug. 21, 2023. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Zelenskyy thanks Danes in person for F-16s, though the planes won’t have an immediate war impact

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing. China Sept. 3, 2018. Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit of the BRICS bloc in South Africa this week. (How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia, China look to advance agendas at BRICS summit of developing countries in South Africa

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Grassroots Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Grassroots organizations must provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine

By Elle Ota

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, receives the order of South Africa from President Cyril Ramaphosa at Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Jinping has arrived for a state visit in South Africa where the two countries are expected to strengthen ties ahead of the BRICS summit starting in Johannesburg on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

BRICS leaders holding summit in South Africa, but Putin won’t be there in person

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is greeted by Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. The leaders met at a military air base in the southern Dutch city, a day after Zelenskyy visited Sweden on his first foreign trip since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania last month. On Friday, the Netherlands and Denmark said that the United States had given its approval for the countries to deliver F-16s to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The Netherlands and Denmark will give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, the Dutch prime minister says

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A man, fleeing from heavy shelling, cries as he sits inside an evacuation train to depart Pokrovsk train station, in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Civilians fleeing areas near the eastern front in the war in Ukraine Sunday described scenes of devastation as their towns and villages came under sustained attack from Russian forces. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Zelenskyy vows retaliation for Chernihiv attack that killed seven people and wounded almost 150

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second right, and Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center, look at F-16 fighter jets in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023. The leaders met at a military air base in the southern Dutch city, a day after Zelenskyy visited Sweden on his first foreign trip since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania last month. On Friday, the Netherlands and Denmark said that the United States had given its approval for the countries to deliver F-16s to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Ukrainian pilots getting first training on long-awaited F-16s

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian soldier holds an anti-tank missile in his position in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.(AP Photo/Libkos)

Russian missile attack kills 7 in northern Ukrainian city as Zelenskyy visits NATO candidate Sweden

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