Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner Group, has claimed his troops had taken military sites in Rostov-on-Don, as dramatic footage shows armed men and armored vehicles reportedly surrounding the ...

Prigozhin Claims Wagner Forces Are 'Entering Rostov,' Ready to 'Destroy' Published Jun 23, 2023 at 9:45 PM EDT Updated Jun 24, 2023 at 2:24 PM EDT By Aila Slisco ...

How big is the Wagner group? Mr. Prigozhin’s shadowy private military company first emerged before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when the country seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.

Some Russians greeted the weekend’s armed insurrection led by the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, with sympathy, appearing to welcome the mercenary fighters.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. AP ...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary Wagner group, claimed to have control of several important military facilities in southern Russia in the city of Rostov-on-Don.

“We are at the (Rostov military) headquarters,” the bald Prigozhin, looking both fierce and sinister in his combat fatigues, said in a video.

The Russian president vowed to crush the uprising by the Wagner mercenary group, which seized key military installations in Rostov-on-Don.

Prigozhin gave them a choice, by driving tanks through the streets of Rostov. If Putin’s regime ends before Putin dies, that end will look much like the events of this past weekend: sudden ...

Prigozhin then led his troops into Rostov-on-Don and claimed to have taken control of key military facilities in the Voronezh region, where there was an apparent clash between Wagner units and ...

Prigozhin, said early Saturday his forces had seized control of the Russian army’s headquarters in southern Russia’s Rostov-on-Don and that his forces were in control of the city’s military ...

1 Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group, sits inside a military vehicle as a local resident takes a picture with him on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24. Prigozhin ...