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Members of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Wagner leader Prigozhin managed to get 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Moscow with little resistance. (AP photo) **FILE**

U.K. officials: Ex-Wagner Group units becoming part of Russian internal security force

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A view of the exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 31, 2021. A Russian claiming to be a former officer with the Wagner Group has arrived in the Netherlands and says he wants to provide evidence to the International Criminal Court, which is investigating atrocities in the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

A man claiming to be a former Russian officer wants to give evidence to the ICC about Ukraine crimes

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) **FILE**

Russia’s Wagner group may provide Hezbollah with anti-aircraft weapons: White House

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Members of the Wagner Group military company sit atop a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. The U.K. says it will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization. British officials say the group remains a threat to global security even after the death of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. (AP Photo, File)

British intelligence: Wagner group mercenaries have likely been folded into Russian national guard

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin is set at an informal street memorial for Wagner Group's military group members killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board. On Sunday, Russia's Investigative Committee said forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered from the crash, and the identities "conform with the manifest." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

The Kremlin says Putin is not planning to attend Wagner chief Prigozhin’s burial

Associated Press

FILE - Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin gestures on the sidelines of a summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Konstantin palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 9, 2016. Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 killing all 10 people on board. On Sunday, Russia's Investigative Committee said forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered from the crash, and the identities “conform with the manifest.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia finally confirms that Prigozhin, Wagner Group execs were on doomed plane

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this image from video provided by Prigozhin Press Service on Friday, May 5, 2023, head of Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin stands in front of multiple bodies lying on the ground in an unknown location. Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed revolt against Russia's military leadership posed the greatest challenge to Vladimir Putin's authorities in his 23-year rule. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

Russia says it confirmed Wagner leader Prigozhin died in a plane crash

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In this image taken from video, President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera arrives at a polling station in Bangui, Central African Republic, Sunday, July 30, 2023. Russia's Wagner Group, a private military company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, have served as personal bodyguards for President Faustin Archange Touadera, protecting the capital of Bangui from rebel threats and helping secure a July 30 constitutional referendum that could extend his power indefinitely. Prigozhin's presumed death in a plane crash along with some of his top lieutenants raises doubts about the future of the military contractor. (AP Photo)

Russia’s Wagner mercenaries face uncertainty after the presumed death of their leader in plane crash

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A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former "PMC Wagner Centre" in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Russia's civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

‘An absolute lie’: Kremlin angrily rejects accusations Putin behind Prigozhin plane crash

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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

Associated Press

A fighter of the Wagner private military force places flowers at an informal memorial next to the former "PMC Wagner Centre" in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and some of his top lieutenants were presumed dead in a plane crash. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Wagner Group members vow revenge for death of mercenary army founder Prigozhin

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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 photo taken from video released by Belarusian Defense Ministry via VoenTV on Friday, July 14, 2023, Belarusian soldiers attend a training by mercenary fighters from Wagner private military company near Tsel village, about 55 miles southeast of Minsk, Belarus. Thousands of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries have arrived in Belarus since the group's short-lived rebellion, a military monitoring group said Monday. (Belarusian Defense Ministry via VoenTV via AP, File)

Questions mount over whether Moscow funding Wagner Group following June would-be putsch

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during his meeting with foreign correspondents in Minsk, Belarus, on Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) **FILE**

Belarus president wants Wagner Group Russian fighters for his army

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, on April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

White House adviser calls on China to hold nuclear arms talks

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Members of the Wagner Group military company guard an area as others load their tank onto a truck on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Russia's rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin walked free from prosecution for his June 24 armed mutiny. In the meantime, a campaign appears to be underway to portray the founder of the Wagner Group military contractor as driven by greed. (Vasily Deryugin, Kommersant Publishing House via AP) **FILE**

Post-mutiny, Wagner Group mercenaries still a threat in Africa, Middle East

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on Putin, Ukraine and NATO by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How Ukraine’s campaign to defend Bakhmut weakened Putin

By Daniel N. Hoffman

In this handout photo taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Russia’s rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin walked free from prosecution for his June 24 armed mutiny, and it’s still unclear if anyone will face any charges in the brief uprising against the military or for the deaths of the soldiers killed in it. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP, File)

Russia’s Defense Ministry says Wagner mercenaries are surrendering their weapons to the military

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Russia's war in Ukraine will top the agenda when U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts hold a summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius over two days starting on Tuesday, July 11. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Putin and Wagner Group founder said to hold meeting after aborted rebellion

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times